Police say the human driver of a delivery truck was at fault The debut of a new autonomous shuttle service in Las Vegas, the ?largest trial of its kind in the United States? according to transit officials, was marred when the vehicle was involved in a slight fender-bender.
The AAA Free Self-Driving shuttle, an Arma vehicle built by Navya that utilizes LIDAR technology and GPS, was on a test run yesterday in the Fremont East neighborhood when it was hit by a delivery truck.
Here?s the city?s official response to the incident:

UPDATE: Minor incident downtown Wednesday afternoon
The autonomous shuttle was testing today when it was grazed by a delivery truck downtown. The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it?s sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident. Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and grazed the front fender of the shuttle. Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided. Testing of the shuttle will continue during the 12-month pilot in the downtown Innovation District. The shuttle will remain out of service for the rest of the day. The driver of the truck was cited by Metro.
The city?s police department said that the accident, which occurred a few minutes after noon, was the fault of the human driver, not the machine.
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