Watch This Google Self-Driving Car Very Slowly Crash Into a Bus

By Dan Bova Mar 09, 2016
Live Leak

Earlier this year, one of Google’s self-driving cars hit a bus while navigating traffic in Mountain View, Calif.

Up until now, a GIF of the incident made the internet rounds, but today the full video of the incident was obtained by the Associated Press and published on Live Leak, which you can watch below. Warning: This is not at all graphic. In fact, it is quite dull.

Related: Google Self-Driving Car Hits Municipal Bus

According to the accident report, the Google car, a 2012 Lexus RX450h, expected the bus to yield as the car navigated around some sandbags surrounding a manhole in its path. (Silly Google car, buses yield to no one). Crash! Google says it has updated the software to take situations like this into account. We’d love to get a look at that “drivers are jerks” coding.

Earlier this year, one of Google’s self-driving cars hit a bus while navigating traffic in Mountain View, Calif.

Up until now, a GIF of the incident made the internet rounds, but today the full video of the incident was obtained by the Associated Press and published on Live Leak, which you can watch below. Warning: This is not at all graphic. In fact, it is quite dull.

Related: Google Self-Driving Car Hits Municipal Bus

According to the accident report, the Google car, a 2012 Lexus RX450h, expected the bus to yield as the car navigated around some sandbags surrounding a manhole in its path. (Silly Google car, buses yield to no one). Crash! Google says it has updated the software to take situations like this into account. We’d love to get a look at that “drivers are jerks” coding.

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Dan Bova

VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com
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Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com and host of the How Success Happens podcast. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia Zone, Road & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little...

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