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Re:Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals by spullara on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:16AM (#12480399)
1 crash is literally all of them. Also it was a truck passing across the path of tge vehicle.
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Re:Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals by makomk on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:22PM (#12482269)
1 crash is more than the expected number of crashes for that amount of highway driving, at least from the stats I've seen, and driving at full speed under a truck despite having more than enough time to break is a really nasty failure mode.
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Re:Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals by krapp on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:49AM (#12486670)
>Also it was a truck passing across the path of the vehicle

That is exactly the sort of situation self-driving cars are expected to be perfect, or at least superior, to humans at handling. If they're no better than a human driver or even a bit worse when edge-cases occur than what's the point?

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