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Google's Robot Car Crashes

But company says human was driving.

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Sure, blame the human. Google's self-driving car crashed into another Prius near the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters. But Google says its robot autopilot is not to blame, because a human was driving at the time. Self-driving cars must legally have a human at the wheel in case anything goes wrong. Google has been working on a project that uses radar, video cameras and lasers to guide a car through traffic, which it says will eventually make driving safer and reduce highway congestion. Google says its cars have driven more than 160,000 “without incident.”

Read it at Los Angeles Times

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