Near-collision poses need for V2V in Google cars

Both Google and Delphi have busily downplayed an incident last month when their self-driving cars almost collided on the streets of Palo Alto.

The good news is that the two autonomous cars dodged the bullet. But what about a "user experience" in which the car took sudden evasive action by aborting a lane change?

Adrian Koh, director of business development for automotive at NXP Semiconductors posed this question during the "Why Connect Cars?" discussion at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley.

In the incident, a Delphi autonomous car played chicken with a Google Car, "a typical lane change maneuver," said a Delphi spokeswoman. The spokeswoman told EE Times that this was "an actual interaction that we encounter all the time in real-world driving situations."

Google similarly explained, "If you spend enough time on the road, accidents will happen whether you’re in a car or a self-driving car."

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