Google has now become more painstaking by preparing to report all the self-driving accidents. Last month, a vehicle rare-ended one of Google’s self-driving cars at a Mountain View intersection.
In the last month’s reports, the firm said that the flagship car from the internet giant has been implicated in nearly 12 accidents. This takes no account about the time it started testing in 2009. Now, anyone will be able to download monthly reports about where the cars are and what they are up to, thanks to the new transparency initiative from Google.
Most of the accidents implicated rear-ending, and Google mentioned that one of the self-driving car was rear-ended at a stoplight sign in California, bringing the sum to 13. Google said that none of the accidents were due to the fault of mechanism of the car.
In the upcoming Google report, most of the accidents would be reported on monthly basis and will be a part of new reporting system that will see Google making a consolidated presentation of the total number of accidents that their driverless cars have been a part of.
In one of the cases, a Google employee took the driverless car out for a spin to do some local shopping and ended up smashing the car from the back when it dashed into another car that had stopped in mid-traffic.
Google has been pressurised to make these reports public in order to ensure travelling safety and transparency and not hide behind private and confidential information closure. The accidents have been public so the information collected should also be public.
The first ever accident occurred in 2010 after Google started the test in the year 2009. In fact, six of these accidents happened when the cars were in auto driving mode. The rest six happened when the Google workers were driving.
