(Bloomberg) — A Google Inc. driverless car was involved in the fleet's first collision to result in injury.
"Everyone in both vehicles was okay, except for a bit of minor whiplash," Chris Urmson, Google's director for self-driving cars, wrote in a blog item posted Thursday. One of Google's vehicles braked during a green light because of congestion, and the car behind hit it at 17 mph and lost its bumper, he wrote.
Google last month said it would issue monthly reports about its self-driving automobiles after a shareholder asked the company to be more transparent about accidents involving the technology. The company says robotic vehicles drive better than humans do and will reduce deaths caused by cars driven by people. Google's hands-free cars have been hit by other drivers 14 times since the project began in 2009, according to the company.
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