What’s the old saying: “Sometimes you hit the bus. And sometimes the bus hits you”? I know it’s something like that.
Either way, it shouldn’t happen to Google’s self-driving cars anymore because the tech giant was just awarded a patent for “Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle.”
An image from Google’s bus detection patent.
Although Google applied for the patent in 2014, it was just awarded this week, which is comically bad timing. That’s because a self-driving Google car sideswiped — albeit barely — a Mountain View city bus on Feb. 14. Read more…
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