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Driverless Waymo — traveling under 6 mph, company claims — hits child in Santa Monica
['City News Service']
Pasadena Star News
Santa Monica police on Thursday continued investigating a crash involving a Waymo driverless vehicle that hit a student on his way to school.
The collision occurred about 7:40 a.m. Friday, Jan. 23, near 24th and Pearl streets, according to Santa Monica Police Department spokesman Lt. Lewis Gilmour.
Santa Monica Fire Department personnel responded and evaluated the student, who was with his parents, and found him to be unharmed.
Waymo said the vehicle slowed from 17 mph to under 6 mph before contacting the child, and modeling showed a human driver would likely have struck the student at about 14 mph.
No one was injured in that collision, and the patient, whose condition was not considered critical, was transferred to a second ambulance and taken to a hospital.