Google blames careless humans after first driverless car injury
Google has said the first injury involving a driverless car was down to a careless driver slamming into the back of one of its vehicles. On Thursday, Google revealed that three of its employees, who had been riding in one of its driverless Lexus cars, were taken to hospital with minor whiplash after a car rear-ended it at traffic lights in Mountain View, California, earlier this month. It was the 14th accident in six years and almost 2 million miles of testing. Chris Urmson, who leads the company's driverless car project, said not a single accident had been caused by Google's cars.
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