

“We send our sincere condolences to the dog’s owner,” said the rep. “The investigation is ongoing, however the initial review confirmed that the system correctly identified the dog which ran out from behind a parked vehicle but was not able to avoid contact. “A small dog ran in front of one of our vehicles with an autonomous specialist present in the driver’s seat, and, unfortunately, a collision occurred,” the spokesperson said. The Waymo car, like those pictured here, “was engaged in autonomous mode” when it hit and killed a dog. The autonomous vehicle also “sustained damage” in the crash, the DMV report noted, with a box ticked to show it was minor.Ī spokesperson for Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., confirmed the crash to The Post on Friday.
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“A test driver was present” in the driver’s seat, but the vehicle’s automatic driving system (ADS) “was engaged in autonomous mode” during the deadly accident on May 21, the report states. Tesla recalling 363K cars with self-driving beta software due to ‘crash risk’Ī self-driving Google car ran over and killed a small dog during a test drive in San Francisco - adding to local officials’ fears over a massive planned rollout of the ride-sharing robotaxis.Īn online DMV report said the car by Waymo - previously the Google Self-Driving Car Project - hit a small dog “which did not survive.”
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