Google’s self-driving car causes first accident – but it’s still a better driver than you

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by Sindy Cator on February 29, 2016 at 10:02 pm

So far, Google’s autonomous car has logged a pretty impressive driving record. There have been some missteps and even a few accidents, but until recently it had never caused an accident while driving itself. That changed on February 14 when an autonomously-driven Google Lexus hit the side of a bus. Today, the accident report became public and Google disclosed that its autonomous car had caused a crash, its first at-fault accident by an AI. We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn’t moved there wouldn’t have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going…