[DBNO]

Here's a link to a video showing the damage to the Google car: https://youtu.be/wBU9zsGQR5k

Here's a link to the DMV Google traffic report: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3946fbb8-e04e-4d52...

From reading the above report, it seems it was officially only a one-lane road, but the road was big enough to handle two-streams of traffic. The google car could have just stayed in the middle of the road, but instead, was hugging the right side of the road in preparation for a right-hand turn. Due to sand bags next to a storm drain, the google car had to "merge" back into the one-land road to get around the sandbags. Considering it's still a one-land road, the bus driver should have yielded to any car that was in front of it. I'd place a majority of the blame on the bus.

What I don't understand: Why doesn't the Google car have video of the accident? Or if they do, does anyone know if they will share a video of it?

[ocdtrekkie]

I suspect Google will render some of the fancy video of 'what their car sees' of this incident like they've used in previous marketing materials. Those fancy videos aren't rendered on the spot though! We'll probably see it soon.

[eru]

Just speculation: they might also have to still figure out the PR angle. (Or waiting is their PR angle?)

Right now, lots of people are already blaming the bus, without Google ever actually saying so. Moral high ground for them.

[ocdtrekkie]

True. Google's PR team is probably on full alert on this one.

[justinhj]

I wonder if the cars graphical renderings are acceptable in court

[ocdtrekkie]

I doubt this is big enough a deal to be handled in open court. But I'm sure the data could be looked at by a third party, and the visualization could be vetted as a fair representation of the sensor data picked up by the car.