Man, I know I'm on the wrong forum to be advocating for self driving & electric cars.
But in all fairness, the driverless car was not at fault.
Full article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...nomous-vehicle
Google has already said one of the hardest things about programming autonomous vehicles is getting them to react to human behaviour on the roads.
eg. A car that waits legally behind the line will never get around some intersections, you need to teach it to illegally 'edge' forwards so other drivers yield in peak hour traffic.
It's early days, we shouldn't expect it to be perfect. Teaching a car to break its road rules to avoid other drivers f*ckups is probably going to be the _last_ thing they master.
Here's the baseline we should keep in mind: The death rate per 100 million miles traveled in 2015 ranged from 0.52 in Massachusetts to 1.89 in South Carolina.
Autonomous vehicles are allowed to kill 1 person per 200 million miles travelled. This bus did far less than 200 million miles, but google has done more than 2 million miles in total. We're still at 0 fatalities (as we should be).