Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash

Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by krapp on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:03PM (#11197385)

Human drivers are better at judging the behavior of other human drivers than autonomous cars currently seem to be. We can tell when a bus is about to pull out, or not, due to various cues (engine noise, exhaust, the sound of hydraulic brakes, onboarding passengers,signal lights, the presence of traffic behind us, etc,) which the Google car was apparently blind to.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by seanp2k2 on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:19PM (#11197542)

If you watch closely too you can almost always tell when a car is about to change lanes, even before (if they bother to at all) activate their turn signal or depart their lane. I'd love to see automated cars process stuff like this (small behavioral cues from human drivers)...maybe they already do? I'm guessing that they're not just relying on turn signals to predict intentions :)

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by donkeyd on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:36PM (#11198259)

The driver was also blind to this, according to the article.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by okasaki on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:19PM (#11197545)

The Google car apparently had a driver who missed it too.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by krapp on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:50PM (#11197864)

Would they have missed it if they were driving, or did they trust the Google car more than their own instincts, though?

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