Google Reports Another Self Driving Accident

The search engine giant has reported another collision of a normal car with an autonomous car of its own, and that too entirely because of human error.

Google Inc has been rolling out tests for its self-driving cars for quite some time now and so far, it has reported quite a few accidents that have been made by the automotive cars. Reports suggest that the firm’s cars are now being turned into machines that are well aware of the demands of the people and are being built accordingly.

The data that is required to make these automatic cars good enough to be put on the road is being continuously fed into it, which shows just how much time and money the tech giant is spending on the venture. According to a recent report, it was informed by the firm that a new test will be carried out of the cars in Austin in the upcoming weeks. The self-driving car is Lexus RX450h, the sport utility vehicle chosen by the firm to install the self-driving techniques in, and the tests are to be carried forward with a total number of 25 cars.

The upcoming cars that Google is currently planning to test in Austin look like mini vans and are still going through the process of receiving more information on how to work on the roads before the test is done. A recent report on the car was given by the leader of the automotive program for self-driving cars that are being made by the search engine company, and it came around that the cars that have been brought to the road so far around completing around 10,000 miles of autonomous activity every week, and that too on the roads that are being used by the general public.

Furthermore, the tech giant is presently a little away from making the big launch by making the cars safe for public usage. It has been a long time enough for the firm to be testing the autonomous cars and it is being stated that the company could be looking for a couple of more years before passing all the tests and clearing out all the speculations the public has towards the new technology.

Even though there have been a couple of harmless accidents that took place while testing the autonomous cars, so far no casualties have been reported apart from minor scratches and bruises that the people present on the location received. Recently, a collision was reported to the press which was also due to a human error and was not at the machine’s end, as by pressing the brakes too hard, the driver present in the car stopped the car all too suddenly which caused the car at the back to hit the rear end of Google’s autonomous car.