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Google says it bears "some responsibility" after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus

Google says it bears "some responsibility" after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month. The crash may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle and making an error. The Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader and tech firm said it updated its software after the crash to avoid future incidents. In a Feb. 23 report filed with California regulators, Google said the crash took place in Mountain View on Feb. 14 when a self-driving Lexus RX450h sought to get around some sandbags in a wide lane. Google said in the filing the autonomous vehicle was traveling at less than 2 miles per hour, while the bus was moving at about 15 miles per hour. The vehicle and the test driver "believed the bus would slow or allow the Google (autonomous vehicle) to continue," it said. Google said in November that in six years of its self-driving project it has been involved in 17 minor accidents during more than two million miles of autonomous and manual driving combined.

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