The innovative self-driving car launched by Google earlier this year was recently involved in a minor accident in California, and while that's certainly an interesting development, what's most compelling about the story is that at the time the car was being driven by a human being.<\/p>\n
Business Insider reports that the specially-outfitted Prius struck another Prius from behind, which caused a chain reaction of three other cars. Nobody was injured in the crash, which might ironically serve as an endorsement of self-driven automobiles.<\/p>\n
"Safety is our top priority," a Google spokesperson told the news source. "One of our goals is to prevent fender-benders like this one, which occurred while a person was manually driving the car."<\/p>\n
According to NBC Bay Area, Google also pointed out that similar self-driven cars have clocked an impressive 160,000 miles already without an incident.<\/p>\n
Though driverless cars are certainly a far way off, for now motorists can get behind of the innovative cars like the Toyota<\/a> Prius or the Chevrolet<\/a> Volt by checking out New Jersey Auto Auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The innovative self-driving car launched by Google earlier this year was recently involved in a minor accident in California, and while that's certainly an interesting development, what's most compelling about the story is that at the time the car was being driven by a human being. Business Insider reports that the specially-outfitted Prius struck another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n