Monday, August 15, 2011

The accident of autopilot cars occurred at the headquarters of Google in Google's Mountain View, California

The accident of  autopilot cars occurred at the headquarters of Google in Google's Mountain View, California. Based on photographs, it appears that the crash only occurs in small scale and no one was hurt. Some other sites report that this incident was the first car accident on autopilot Google.

Cars autopilot developed by Google that can run without the driver having an accident was reported last week. The news was first reported by Jalopnik, a blogger who posted photographs on its website the accident scene on Friday (08/05/2011) then.

The accident of  autopilot cars occurred at the headquarters of Google in Google's Mountain View, California

Suddenly the accident report makes Google reacted. In a statement on Business Insider, Google said that the Toyota Prius type car accidents are not caused by problems with the Google software. However, when a car accident claimed precisely controlled manually. When accidents happen, this autopilot car was in manual mode.

Responding to the reaction of Google, Chris Matyszczyk from CNET question it. "While Google wants us to believe that the accident was caused by human error, but a spokesman did not declare in gambalng if there are no errors at all. So, someone was driving the car manually. But no statement that the person is exactly what makes a mistake. Or real blame lies with the car. "

He asked Google to give more information. Cars autopilot Google uses a combination of video cameras, radar sensors and a laser seeker to find another car. According to the Google software engineer, Sebastian Thrun, in a blog post, 2010, the car relies on Google Maps and Earth to navvigasi.

Google is planning to put a human being or a car driver in this on autopilot. With the ability of the car, claimed that the driver can drive more safely, even after driving for so long and sleepy.

Had this accident occurred due to errors in software, this one must note the failure of Google. But if not, it's just a common problem because according to a statement a Google spokesman, this car has traveled 250 thousand miles automatically without incident.