And it is that in the tests that are carried out with autonomous cars, accidents can occur and in this case it also happened with colleagues from the renowned digital medium TechCrunch, inside. It seems that they were doing the presentation and the first real test with the media and these evidently did not go well ending in a road accident recorded live.
Things like this are not common in autonomous cars, that no one puts their hands to their head, but it is evident as shown in this video that it can happen. The truth is that no one except the sheet metal of the Hyundai Genesis, suffered personal injury and this in any case is the most important.
We do not want to fail to mention that this Phantom AI prototype, which suffers the accident recorded live he had the emergency braking of his technology disabled. Okay, many will say that what was the reason for deactivating this braking that would have prevented the collision and it seems that it is due to false emergency braking that this technology carried out.
This in summary makes it clear to us at least a couple of things and the first of them is that you cannot go out to perform real tests with the media until you have well polished the technology that allows the car to move with a really tested safety, and two , that obviously all cars are susceptible to an accident at any time and that is why before launching to show it to the media you have to be sure that those "failures" detected in emergency braking they cannot be bypassed to deactivate it and test the car on the road. Techcrunch He is the unwitting protagonist of this accident and this is something that they will surely not forget for a long time.