Google announced in a blog post Thursday that a recent fender-bender with one of its self-driving car resulted in “a bit of minor whiplash, and a few scrapes on our bumper.”
The July 1 incident marks the company’s 14th accident since 2009, and the first involving an injury of any kind.
“I'll point out that the ‘injuries’ aren't as big a deal as some media outlets might have you believe,” Courtney Hohne, a Google spokeswoman, told Ars. “We took our drivers to visit a local hospital purely as a precautionary measure because they were experiencing minor whiplash; they were checked out briefly and sent home. (They were never admitted to the hospital.)”
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