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In a curve the self-driving lost his way and collided with two other cars, leaving the driver dead and wounded nine other persons.

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Self-driving car crashed into old lady. Old lady crashed into another car. That other car's driver died.

According to the articke, autonomous car (unclear so far if manually controlled at the time of the accident or not at the moment) hit car A (old lady), car A subsequently hit car B, car B went of the road, hit a tree and caught fire. After hitting car A, the autonomous car hit car C head on (I assume that's what you see in the picture), driver of car C died (no surpise whej looking at the picture). Pretty fucked up, even more so if the autonomous car was actually driving autonomous.

For what it's worth, the autonomous car in question seems to be a BMW (hard to tell with the wreackage).

The logo on the center of the front wheel rim is unmistakably BMW's logo.

Edit: Also, car B caught fire and its driver died, the BMW crashed head on into car C but the article says the BMW and car C's occupants were seriously injured.

Wasn't sure on mobile.

>autonomous car (unclear so far if manually controlled at the time of the accident or not at the moment)

More evidence that testing this stuff on the public roads, backup driver or not, is dangerous.

I do agree with that. We should wait until we have the details to make up our minds about this.

One of the problems I have with self driving is, that everyone on the road can judge, to a degree, how the others will behave given certain circumstances. Just what self driving cars will do is everyones guess. And self driving's track record so far is underwhelming, to put it mildly.

Driving in general is inherently dangerous. For an informed opinion on the matter, we need crash rates per driven distance with and without autonomous driving activated. Preferably by manufacturer.

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