First injury accident for self-driving cars

Justin Pritchard has an Associated Press article about Google's new self-driving car:

Google revealed recently that one of its self-driving car prototypes was involved in an injury accident for the first time.
In the collision, a Lexus SUV that the tech giant had outfitted with sensors and cameras was rear-ended in Google’s home city of Mountain View, California, where more than twenty prototypes have been self-maneuvering through traffic.
The three Google employees on board complained of minor whiplash, were checked out at a hospital, and cleared to go back to work following the 1 July 2015 collision, Google said. The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain.
In California, a person must be behind the wheel of a self-driving car being tested on public roads to enable them to take control in an emergency. Google typically sends another employee in the front passenger seat to record details of the ride on a laptop. In this case, there was also a back seat passenger.
Google has invested heavily as a pioneer of self-driving cars, technology it believes will be safer and more efficient than human drivers.
This was the fourteenth accident in six years and about two million miles of testing, according to the company. Google has said that its cars have not caused any of the collisions though, in 2011, an employee who took a car to run an errand rear-ended another vehicle while the Google car was out of self-driving mode.
In eleven of the fourteen, Google said its car was rear-ended.

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