{"id":2289,"date":"2015-07-17T14:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2015-08-08T22:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T03:55:37","slug":"the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But we\u2019re now driving enough\u200a\u2014\u200aand getting hit enough\u200a\u2014\u200athat we can start to make some assumptions about that real crashes-per-miles-driven rate; it\u2019s looking higher than we thought. (Our cars, with safety drivers aboard, are now self-driving about 10,000 miles per week, which is about what a typical American adult drives in a year.) It\u2019s particularly telling that we\u2019re getting hit more often now that the majority of our driving is on surface streets rather than freeways; this is exactly where you\u2019d expect a lot of minor, usually-unreported collisions to happen. Other drivers have hit us 14 times since the start of our project in 2009 (including 11 rear-enders), and <strong>not once has the self-driving car been the cause of the collision<\/strong>. Instead, the clear theme is human error and inattention. We\u2019ll take all this as a signal that we\u2019re starting to compare favorably with human drivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chris_urmson\/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-chapter-2-8d5e2990101b\">The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2 \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But we\u2019re now driving enough\u200a\u2014\u200aand getting hit enough\u200a\u2014\u200athat we can start to make some assumptions about that real crashes-per-miles-driven rate; it\u2019s looking higher than we thought. (Our cars, with safety drivers aboard, are now self-driving about 10,000 miles per week, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}