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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by sangnoir on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:17AM (#9784490)
Click-bait headline by Reuters (and Guardian). The Delphi spokesperson repudiated[1] the "near-miss" description.

"I was there for the discussion with Reuters about automated vehicles," she told Ars by e-mail. "The story was taken completely out of context when describing a type of complex driving scenario that can occur in the real world. Our expert provided an example of a lane change scenario that our car recently experienced which, coincidentally, was with one of the Google cars also on the road at that time. It wasn’t a 'near miss' as described in the Reuters story."

1. http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/no-2-self-driving-cars-d...

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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by jnevill on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:27PM (#9785770)
Further, form that article:

"Our car did exactly what it was supposed to," she wrote. "Our car saw the Google car move into the same lane as our car was planning to move into, but upon detecting that the lane was no longer open it decided to terminate the move and wait until it was clear again."

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