Video from surveillance cameras of a bus colliding with a Google car

As you know, on February 14, the Google Gen-2 unmanned vehicle (Lexus RX450) got into an accident , colliding with a bus during a detour of an obstacle on a two-lane lane.

Now in open access published a video of this incident.

A video from a bus surveillance camera was produced by the Associated Press. At about the seventh second, you can see how the Google car began to maneuver in the right lane just in front of the bus, it did not have time to brake. At the 38th second, you can observe the surprised reaction of the driver.
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The Google car was moving in the far right lane just before the intersection and turning right. Suddenly, he discovered that sandbags blocking the drain were blocking the way. Then he decided to go back to the left lane. There in the stream just went the bus. The program decided that the bus would slightly slow down, giving way to the lane. He did not do this, and the unmanned car got used to it at a speed of 3 km / h. Neither the Google car operator, nor the bus driver, nor the 16 passengers were injured. The damage for the bus is estimated at between $ 2,000 and $ 3,000.

Published photos of the consequences of the accident and the scene.






Sandbags at the drain in front of the intersection









According to Google statistics, since the beginning of road tests in the spring of 2014, other cars on the streets in Mountain View near Google headquarters or in the suburbs have been crashing into unmanned vehicles almost 10 times.

Google has announced that it has reconfigured the software, taking into account "a deeper understanding that buses and other large vehicles are less likely to give way than other types of cars."