No, 2 self-driving cars didn’t have a “close call” on Silicon Valley streets

A pair of self-driving cars from rival companies had a close call in Silicon Valley earlier this week, Reuters reported Thursday evening.

According to John Absmeier, the head of Delphi’s local lab, who was a passenger in his company’s prototype Audi Q5, a Google car suddenly cut off the Delphi car as it was about to change lanes on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. When that happened, the Audi Q5 took “appropriate action”—Absmeier did not elaborate to Reuters.

But that's not what Absmeier meant, according to Kristin Kinley, a Delphi spokeswoman.

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