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Elros  ·  3441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Two self-driving cars involved in close call in California

According to arstechnica, this incident is being a little overstated.

    Courtney Hohne, a Google spokeswoman, e-mailed Ars: "The headline here is that two self-driving cars did what they were supposed to do in an ordinary everyday driving scenario."

It seems that what actually happened is the not uncommon situation where one car tried to change lanes, but the other car merged into that lane first. The only difference here is this involved to self-driving cars instead of cars being driven by humans.





user-inactivated  ·  3441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, the interesting thing about the story was that they handled it gracefully.