Over 15 months of testing self-driving cars Google pilots prevented 13 accidents
Welcome to our readers on the iCover Blog Pages ! Which of the motorists is not eager to bring the moment when it will be possible to completely forget about controlling the traffic situation and pass the time unobtrusively, pleasantly, usefully, for example, discussing the route and immediate plans or watching your favorite videos. But, judging by the rather modest statistics in the 15-month Google report and the opinion of the company's experts, it will most likely be possible to combine our wishes and opportunities not earlier than 2020.
As the official Google report showedprovided to the California Department of Vehicles, covering the period from September 2014 to November 2015, drivers who tested the car’s self-government systems had to urgently intervene a total of 341 times. Such situations appear in the report as a “gap” and imply the complete control of all vehicle control systems under the control of the driver.
We will clarify that out of 341 situations described in the report, in 272 cases, the transfer of control to the driver was carried out on the initiative of the on-board self-government system, which could not cope with the detected malfunctions and inconsistencies due to weather conditions, peculiarities of the road surface, crossing the terrain on which construction work is underway, and the regime emergency situations, incorrect software, violations by other drivers or pedestrians, etc. In such cases, the driver received a characteristic sound or visual signal.
The transfer of control by the control was carried out at the initiative of an automatic on-board vehicle system
In the remaining 69 cases, the driver had to take the initiative on his own. Of course, far from in each of these situations, as in the case considered above, the probability of an accident was obvious and high. At the same time, serious problems in the high probability of an accident, according to Google experts, could have occurred in 13 of 69 cases. And here, the driver’s intervention literally saved the situation from complete loss of control. Moreover, in 10 out of 13 cases, the cause of a probable accident was related to the Google cars themselves, and only in 3 out of 13 situations, the provoking accidents were created by external circumstances.
Statistics of cases where the initiative to transfer control to the driver belonged to the driver
According to the data provided in the report for 15 months of testing, 23 Google cars were tested, covering a total distance of 683 thousand km. According to the same company experts, in just one month of testing, the Google fleet managed to cover the distance that the average American motorist overcomes in 2-4 years. At the same time, the report mentions that the average distance covered by a google mobile “in the same breath” without transferring control increased from 1263 km at the start of the test to 8558 at the end of the experiment. Experts stipulate that in this case only statistics are taken into account in which the system transferred control to the driver on its own initiative.
In a repeated series of tests conducted under various conditions on the roads of Texas and California, 30 unmanned googlomobiles with on-board control systems, improved taking into account the results of previous testing, will leave.
The dynamics of troubleshooting will allow, according to Google experts, to transfer their potential owners fully self-driving cars with increased (compared to the traditional way of driving) safety by 2020. At the same time, the simulation of the test results made it possible to determine: in comparison with Google’s unmanned vehicles, accidents of traditional vehicles, as well as their consequences for the driver and passengers, will be much more serious, with a 0 mortality rate in similar situations for Google cars.
Sources:
The Warge
Google Report
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As the official Google report showedprovided to the California Department of Vehicles, covering the period from September 2014 to November 2015, drivers who tested the car’s self-government systems had to urgently intervene a total of 341 times. Such situations appear in the report as a “gap” and imply the complete control of all vehicle control systems under the control of the driver.
We will clarify that out of 341 situations described in the report, in 272 cases, the transfer of control to the driver was carried out on the initiative of the on-board self-government system, which could not cope with the detected malfunctions and inconsistencies due to weather conditions, peculiarities of the road surface, crossing the terrain on which construction work is underway, and the regime emergency situations, incorrect software, violations by other drivers or pedestrians, etc. In such cases, the driver received a characteristic sound or visual signal.
The transfer of control by the control was carried out at the initiative of an automatic on-board vehicle system
In the remaining 69 cases, the driver had to take the initiative on his own. Of course, far from in each of these situations, as in the case considered above, the probability of an accident was obvious and high. At the same time, serious problems in the high probability of an accident, according to Google experts, could have occurred in 13 of 69 cases. And here, the driver’s intervention literally saved the situation from complete loss of control. Moreover, in 10 out of 13 cases, the cause of a probable accident was related to the Google cars themselves, and only in 3 out of 13 situations, the provoking accidents were created by external circumstances.
Statistics of cases where the initiative to transfer control to the driver belonged to the driver
According to the data provided in the report for 15 months of testing, 23 Google cars were tested, covering a total distance of 683 thousand km. According to the same company experts, in just one month of testing, the Google fleet managed to cover the distance that the average American motorist overcomes in 2-4 years. At the same time, the report mentions that the average distance covered by a google mobile “in the same breath” without transferring control increased from 1263 km at the start of the test to 8558 at the end of the experiment. Experts stipulate that in this case only statistics are taken into account in which the system transferred control to the driver on its own initiative.
In a repeated series of tests conducted under various conditions on the roads of Texas and California, 30 unmanned googlomobiles with on-board control systems, improved taking into account the results of previous testing, will leave.
The dynamics of troubleshooting will allow, according to Google experts, to transfer their potential owners fully self-driving cars with increased (compared to the traditional way of driving) safety by 2020. At the same time, the simulation of the test results made it possible to determine: in comparison with Google’s unmanned vehicles, accidents of traditional vehicles, as well as their consequences for the driver and passengers, will be much more serious, with a 0 mortality rate in similar situations for Google cars.
Sources:
The Warge
Google Report
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