LOS ANGELES— A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a city street, a fender-bender that appears to be the first time one of the tech company’s vehicles caused an accident.
The collision occurred on Valentine’s Day and Google reported it to California’s Department of Motor Vehicles in an accident report that the agency posted Monday.
The car was rolling at 2 mph and the bus at 15 mph. No one was injured.
The report does not address fault. However, Google wrote that its car was trying to get around some sandbags on a street in Mountain View, California, when its left front struck the right side of the bus.
Google self-driving car sees through the window of one of the cars on exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File
