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Friday, March 4, 2016

Google self-driving car hits bus

A Google autonomous vehicle struck a bus in California on Valentine’s Day, according to an incident report from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Google Automotive, the branch of Alphabet that handles self-driving car research, filed the incident report in accordance with California law.

No one was hurt, Google says.

According to the report, the vehicle was in autono-
mous mode and in the far right lane of a main

thoroughfare in the California city of Mountain View. As it approached a red light, the car automatically signaled that it would make a right turn. Cars in the same lane ahead of the autonomous vehicle were waiting at the red light to proceed straight, so the autonomous vehicle got to the right of the lane to pass those other cars, but it sensed some sandbags around a storm drain in the road, and it stopped.

For more of the Ars Technica story: arstechnica.com