Google self-driving car pulls around sandbags and into the side of a municipal bus

On Valentine's Day 2016, a self-driving Lexus RX450h in Mountain View, California, swung out from behind some sandbags in a wide lane and into the side of a municipal bus. The car was traveling under 2 mph. The bus was doing about 15.

Google's Feb. 23 filing with California regulators said the vehicle and its test driver "believed the bus would slow or allow the Google (autonomous vehicle) to continue." Three seconds later, still in autonomous mode, it re-entered the center of the lane and struck the bus, damaging its left front fender, front wheel, and a driver-side sensor. No one was injured and no police report was filed. In November, Google had said that in six years and more than two million miles of driving, its cars had been in 17 minor accidents and "[n]ot once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident." There has been no official determination of fault in this one. (Reuters)