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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California - Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the Internet company isn't releasing the crash reports involving its self-driving cars. Why? To protect the privacy of road users.
Brin's explanation came in response to a question posed on Wednesday (June 3) by a company critic during Google's annual shareholders' meeting.
Even if names were censored from the records, Brin said, the documents filed with California regulators wouldn't reveal anything different to what Google disclosed about self-driving cars' collisions in a summary posted online in May 2015.
12 CRASHES
Brin says the total number of crashes climbed to 12 in May 2015 when a self-driving car was rear-ended.
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Google says its 'autonomous' cars have never been at fault, though in one crash a company employee who took over control of the vehicle hit another vehicle.
