{"id":128658,"date":"2015-06-27T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=128658"},"modified":"2015-06-27T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T07:01:09","slug":"rival-robot-cars-meet-on-california-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=128658","title":{"rendered":"Rival robot cars meet on California highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare meeting between two self-driving cars resulted in one taking evasive action, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n

The robot cars, one made by Delphi Automotive and one by Google, met on a Californian road in Palo Alto.<\/p>\n

The Google car pulled in front of the Delphi vehicle making it abandon a planned lane change.<\/p>\n

The incident comes as Google’s purpose-built self-driving cars take to California highways to see how well they mix with regular traffic.<\/p>\n

Emergency encounter<\/strong>
\nDetails of the encounter were revealed to Reuters by John Absmeier – director of Delphi’s autonomous car driving unit.<\/p>\n

The vehicles involved were conventional road cars modified with lasers, radar, cameras and other sensors to help them navigate roads without a driver.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred as the Delphi car, an Audi Q5 crossover, was preparing to change lanes. As it did so the Google car, a Lexus RX400h crossover, abruptly moved in front of it forcing the Audi to abandon its manoeuvre.<\/p>\n

The Delphi car coped well with the incident, said Mr Absmeier, and “took appropriate action”.<\/p>\n

A Delphi spokeswoman clarified the incident with tech news site Ars Technica saying there was nothing amiss in the encounter and that its vehicle behaved “admirably”.<\/p>\n

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Google played down the the incident, saying early reports that the cars were involved in a “near miss” were inaccurate. It said the cars treated each other as they would any other vehicle and neither was in danger of colliding with the other.<\/p>\n

Delphi and Google’s autonomous vehicles have been involved in several minor accidents and incidents during testing. However, before now all of those have involved the robot cars and human-driven vehicles. In almost all cases, the firms have said, the fault lay with human drivers.<\/p>\n

The encounter occurred earlier this week shortly before Google’s purpose-built robot cars began to be tested on roads in Mountain View close to the search giant’s headquarters.<\/p>\n

Google has created a webpage through which people can share their encounters with the cars and their impressions of how they drive.<\/p>\n

A monthly report about Google’s self-driving car project reveals that it is currently testing 32 autonomous vehicles – 23 modified Lexus SUVs and 9 purpose-built prototypes. During testing, it said, these vehicles have covered more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometres).<\/p>\n

It also detailed some of the accidents in which the cars have been involved.<\/p>\n

Many of these resulted in minor damage to the Google cars and the most serious involved a driver in a modified Lexus taking control to avoid a human-driven car that ignored a stop sign.<\/p>\n

The report also reveals how the cars coped when they met other road users such as emergency vehicles and cyclists at night.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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