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Here's a link to a video showing the damage to the Google car: https://youtu.be/wBU9zsGQR5k https://youtu.be/wBU9zsGQR5k Here's a link to the DMV Google traffi
by DBNO 11y ago
Here's a link to a video showing the damage to the Google car: https://youtu.be/wBU9zsGQR5k https://youtu.be/wBU9zsGQR5k
Here's a link to the DMV Google traffic report: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3946fbb8-e04e-4d52-8f80-b33948df34b2/Google+Auto+LLC+02.14.16.pdf?MOD=AJPERES https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3946fbb8-e04e-4d52...
From reading the above report, it seems it was officially only a one-lane road, but the road was big enough to handle two-streams of traffic. The google car could have just stayed in the middle of the road, but instead, was hugging the right side of the road in preparation for a right-hand turn. Due to sand bags next to a storm drain, the google car had to "merge" back into the one-land road to get around the sandbags. Considering it's still a one-land road, the bus driver should have yielded to any car that was in front of it. I'd place a majority of the blame on the bus.
What I don't understand: Why doesn't the Google car have video of the accident? Or if they do, does anyone know if they will share a video of it?
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoI suspect Google will render some of the fancy video of 'what their car sees' of this incident like they've used in previous marketing materials. Those fancy videos aren't rendered on the spot though! We'll probably see it soon.
- justinhj 11y agoI wonder if the cars graphical renderings are acceptable in court
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoI doubt this is big enough a deal to be handled in open court. But I'm sure the data could be looked at by a third party, and the visualization could be vetted as a fair representation of the sensor data picked up by the car.
- eru 11y agoJust speculation: they might also have to still figure out the PR angle. (Or waiting is their PR angle?) Right now, lots of people are already blaming the bus, without Google ever actually saying so. Moral high ground for them.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoTrue. Google's PR team is probably on full alert on this one.