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> "The story was taken completely out of context when describing a type of complex driving scenario that can occur in the real world. Our expert provided an exa
by SlashmanX 11y ago
> "The story was taken completely out of context when describing a type of complex driving scenario that can occur in the real world. Our expert provided an example of a lane change scenario that our car recently experienced which, coincidentally, was with one of the Google cars also on the road at that time. It wasn’t a 'near miss' as described in the Reuters story".
> Instead, she explained how this was a normal scenario, and the Delphi car performed admirably.
> "Our car did exactly what it was supposed to," she wrote. "Our car saw the Google car move into the same lane as our car was planning to move into, but upon detecting that the lane was no longer open it decided to terminate the move and wait until it was clear again."
Source: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/no-2-self-driving-cars-didnt-have-a-close-call-on-silicon-valley-streets/ http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/no-2-self-driving-cars-d...
- forthefuture 11y agoI read the original title and immediately thought that a more accurate title would have been, "Two self driving cars don't hit eachother".
- SlashmanX 11y agoThey just updated the article it seems with a quote from a Google spokeswoman > Courtney Hohne, a Google spokeswoman, e-mailed Ars: "The headline here is that two self-driving cars did what they were supposed to do in an ordinary everyday driving scenario."