Without a driver, Just Google Car Accident 11 Times

It has been six years since g run the project without a driver's car. After more than 2.7 million kilometers of testing on the road, the Internet giant claims-made car suffered only minor accidents as much as 11 times.

Concern about the accident is so important in the development of this car without a driver. Because the basic idea of ​​the development of these technologies is to reduce traffic accidents triggered by negligence driving.

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"For more than six years since the start of this project, we only experienced 11 times the minor accident (minor damage, with no injuries). And none of the accident was caused by a car without a driver," claims the director of Google Self-driving Car Programs Chris Urmson writing in the blog medium.

It's a matter of minor accidents, Urmson reported that the unmanned car that had ditubruk from behind about seven times, rubbed by another car on the side or accidentally hit by a car late braking when the traffic light turns red.

Google does provide a self-drive car with a number of cameras and sensors, its main function is to scan the streets and the obstacles in its path. Urmson uncover the sensor in the car without a crew, among others in the form of a 360 degree view, a detector 100 percent spread in all directions until the sensor to track the position of other vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians who are within range of nearly two football fields (about 200 meters ).

"But even when software and sendor we can detect situations-a difficult situation and act faster than human reaction, there are times when our car was not able to handle it due to factors of speed and distance. Sometimes a collision would occur while waiting in line at traffic lights," said Urmson ,

As quoted by the Associated Press, Tuesday (05/12/2015), the accident rate is still a story of Google itself. No authorities released details of each accident.

Privacy Project Director at Consumer Watchdog, John Simpson commented that Google should be more transparent about the claimed accident data.

Simpson felt Google may be making a car without a steering wheel or pedals, and users can not be able to intervene in case of an accident. On the assumption that, of transparency about the accident data is needed because it will bring more information to the user regarding unmanned car that they drive.