傳說(shuō)中相當(dāng)完美的谷歌無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)，終于還是出車(chē)禍了。

據(jù)最近公布的一份交通事故報(bào)告顯示，在2月14日情人節(jié)這天，一輛正在加州山景城谷歌總部附近進(jìn)行測(cè)試的谷歌無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)，在公共道路上撞上了一輛城市公交車(chē)。

這已經(jīng)是今年谷歌無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)第二次發(fā)生事故了。而且自從谷歌啟動(dòng)無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)項(xiàng)目以來(lái)，大大小小的事故已經(jīng)出了十幾起。谷歌稱(chēng)所有這些事故都是人為因素引起的。不過(guò)，到目前為止，人類(lèi)駕駛員已經(jīng)避免了自動(dòng)駕駛汽車(chē)的13次事故的發(fā)生。

雖然事故報(bào)告并沒(méi)有寫(xiě)明此次事故究竟是哪輛車(chē)的責(zé)任，不過(guò)據(jù)谷歌表示，發(fā)生事故的測(cè)試車(chē)輛是一臺(tái)搭載了谷歌傳感器的雷克薩斯SUV（又叫谷歌AV）。當(dāng)時(shí)這輛測(cè)試車(chē)正在試圖繞開(kāi)公路上的一堆沙包，在變道的過(guò)程中撞上了右方的一輛公交車(chē)。測(cè)試車(chē)?yán)镉幸幻{駛員，但他當(dāng)時(shí)以為公交車(chē)會(huì)采取避讓。

測(cè)試車(chē)當(dāng)時(shí)的時(shí)速為2英里，公交車(chē)的時(shí)速則為15英里。此次剮蹭并未導(dǎo)致任何人受傷，只是導(dǎo)致了測(cè)試車(chē)的左前翼子板受損。

當(dāng)?shù)氐臋C(jī)動(dòng)車(chē)管理部門(mén)正在對(duì)此次事故進(jìn)行調(diào)查，以判定事故責(zé)任。如果谷歌測(cè)試車(chē)要負(fù)主要責(zé)任，那么，這將是無(wú)人駕駛車(chē)輛第一次要在交通事故中因?yàn)檎`判而負(fù)責(zé)。

到目前為止，谷歌無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)已經(jīng)在加州的山景城、德州的奧斯汀和華盛頓州的柯克蘭三座城市累計(jì)路試超過(guò)100萬(wàn)英里。很快谷歌還將在其他四座城市進(jìn)行路測(cè)。谷歌表示，其無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)搭載的傳感器的設(shè)計(jì)“能夠在各個(gè)方向上探測(cè)相當(dāng)于兩個(gè)足球場(chǎng)的面積的路況，包括行人、自行車(chē)和機(jī)動(dòng)車(chē)輛等。”

谷歌希望在2020年以前，向消費(fèi)者推出其無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)。從目前看來(lái)，谷歌也的確取得了一些進(jìn)展。全美公路運(yùn)輸交通管理局已經(jīng)做出規(guī)定，用于引導(dǎo)汽車(chē)的人工智能可以被視為聯(lián)邦法律下的合法駕駛員。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))

譯者：樸成奎

One of the company’s autonomous vehicles, which was being tested near its headquarters in Mountain View, CA, struck a city bus on a public street, according to a newly released accident report. (The accident took place on Valentine’s Day.)

This is the second time this year a Google self-driving vehicle has been in a wreck – and there have been more than a dozen accidents with the cars since the self-driving car project began. Google has said all of those were caused by humans. (However, human drivers have prevented the autonomous vehicles from causing an accident 13 times so far.)

While the current report does not assign blame to either vehicle, Google GOOG -1.04% said the car, a Lexus SUV equipped with Google’s sensors (called a Google AV), was attempting to navigate around sandbags in the street and was pulling into another lane when it struck the bus on the right side. A test driver was in the car, but expected the bus to yield.

The self-driving car was going 2 mph and the bus was traveling 15mph. There were no reported injuries in the fender-bender, but the Google AV’s front left quarter panel got banged up.

The local Department of Motor Vehicles is investigating the accident to determine who is to blame. If Google’s vehicle is cited, it will be the first time an autonomous vehicle has been found responsible for a collision.

To date, the self-driving car project has driven over 1 million miles in its three test cities – Mountain View, Austin, TX and Kirkland, WA. (The company is planning to add four more test cities soon.) Google says its cars are equipped with “sensors designed to detect objects as far as two football fields away in all directions, including pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles”.

It hopes to introduce the cars to consumers by 2020 – and seems to be making progress. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has ruled that the artificial intelligence guiding the car can be considered a legal driver under federal law.