Google Launches A Website For Monthly Updates On Driverless Car Project; Reports About Accident Cases As Well

Google, that has been working on its ‘Driverless cars’ has introduced a website on June 5 that will provide monthly updates on its driverless car project. The website will report about the incidents of accidents encountered by the driverless cars, according to reports.

According to a report on 9 to 5 Google, the new site is a result of the search engine giant getting attention on the safety of the driverless cars and a report claimed its prototypes have encountered three accidents within a year of putting the car under trial.

The newly launched website will carry information about accidents without disclosing the identity of drivers, who are required by law to ride in the cars, reports CNET. The website carries information about Google’s Driverless car project and the way the driverless vehicle reacts to daily traffic conditions. "We don't claim that the cars are going to be perfect. Our goal is to beat human drivers," the CNET report quoted Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin, as saying. “Nothing can be a perfect vehicle. I just wanted to set that expectation,” Brin said further to CNET.

Till date, Google’s driverless cars have logged over 1.8 million miles of autonomous and manual driving and have been involved in 13 accidents in 6 years, reports 9 to 5 Google. The first monthly report reveals information about each of the accidents and explains that majority of cases involved human error on the part of another driver and in many cases, the driverless cars were rear ended, 9 to 5 Google reported.

"Rear-end crashes are the most frequent accidents in America, and often there's little the driver in front can do to avoid getting hit," the CNET report quoted Chris Urmson, Leader of Driverless car project, as saying. "We've been hit from behind seven times, mainly at traffic lights but also on the freeway,” Umerson explained to CNET.

Google had announced last month that its prototype self driving cars would hit roads for the first time and the search engine giant aims at bringing the cars to the markets by 2020, according to 9 to 5 Google report.

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