Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Autonomous driving, accidents not to rcolpa of ‘robots’ – ANSA.it

From the US comes a study on the subject – faced perhaps for the first time – the responsibility of the 11 incidents that involved cars driving autonomous. As details Automotive News, the only Google fleet, consisting of about twenty vehicles has traveled in the last six years more than 2.7 million kilometers but in any case – said the director of the program – the responsibility was of the car without driver .

In detail the four accidents which have occurred since September 2014, that is, since California has asked the companies that make testing of autonomous driving a specific authorization, referring in only two cases to a situation of human absence on board and in the other two pilot with the steering wheel. According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles they have seen three incidents involving the Lexus RX450h in autonomous driving used by Google, while in one case it was the Audi SQ5 is currently employed by Delphi (the largest supplier of components former GM) for the testing of its system of autonomous driving.

No detail accident cars of Google, if not in the one that occurred in operation ‘autonomous’ since last September was the responsibility of the driver of the vehicle that has buffered at a traffic light the Lexus RX450h. A company spokesperson stated that the total of 11 recorded incidents since the beginning of the trials of autonomous driving, as many as 7 to tamponade occurred by another vehicle, in most cases at traffic lights in urban areas.
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