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Saturday, 20 June 2015

California DMV finally decides to release details about self-driving car accidents

The California Department of Motor Vehicles(DMV) has made an about-turn over the Associated Press request to make public reports of crashes involving self-driving cars, be it from Google, Delphi or any other company testing them on public roads. The California DMVreports reveal  six accidents involving six autonomous cars, as well as the location and make and model of the cars involved.

It seemed everything the DMV reports entail is what Google already  shared with us in its self-driving car accident report a few weeks ago. For instance, the California DMV reports show that the accidents were not caused by the self-driving cars but the other driver on the manual car. And the injuries they got from the accidents were not severe. Although the search engine giant disclosed that Google self-driving cars sustained some damage.

According to the DMV accident reports, Google self-driving cars were involved in five accidents, which were its Lexus SUVs, while the sixth belonged to auto parts firm Delphi.

The Associated Press is one publisher that has been pressuring the California DMV to release details of self-driving car accidents so that the public, the ones who will actually buy and use these vehicles, be in the know of what's going on. But the AP's request fell on deaf ears. The DMV said it could not release such confidential report because it was against California law to do so. However they consented when the AP gave them 'solid' reasons why it is important to make the details open.

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