Click-bait headline by Reuters (and Guardian). The Delphi spokesperson repudiated[1] the "near-miss" description.

"I was there for the discussion with Reuters about automated vehicles," she told Ars by e-mail. "The story was taken completely out of context when describing a type of complex driving scenario that can occur in the real world. Our expert provided an example of a lane change scenario that our car recently experienced which, coincidentally, was with one of the Google cars also on the road at that time. It wasn’t a 'near miss' as described in the Reuters story."

1. http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/no-2-self-driving-cars-d...