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		</div><p>One of Google’s self-driving car prototypes has been involved in an injury accident for the first time.</p>
<p>A Lexus SUV with sensors and cameras installed by the tech giant was rear-ended in Google’s home city of Mountain View, California, where more than 20 prototypes have been self-manoeuvring through traffic.</p>
<p>The three people on board, who complained of minor whiplash injuries, were checked at a hospital and cleared to go back to work following the July 1 collision, Google said. The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain.</p>
<p>In California, a person must be behind the wheel of a self-driving car being tested on public roads to take control in an emergency.</p>
<p>Google typically sends another employee in the front passenger seat to record details of the ride on a laptop. In this case, there was also a back seat passenger.</p>
<p>According to an accident report Google filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Google’s SUV was travelling at about 15mph in self-driving mode behind two other cars as the group approached a junction with a green light.</p>
<p>The first car slowed to a stop so as not to block the junction as traffic on the far side was not moving. The Google car and the other car in front of it also stopped.</p>
<p>Within about a second, a fourth vehicle hit the rear of the Google car at about 17mph. On-board sensors showed the other car did not brake.</p>
<p>The driver of that car reported “minor neck and back pain”. The SUV’s rear bumper was slightly damaged, while the vehicle that struck it lost its front bumper.</p>
<p>Mountain View police responded, but did not file an accident report.</p>
<p>Google has been a pioneer of self-driving technology, which it believes will be safer and more efficient than human-driven cars. This is the 14th accident in six years and about 1.9 million miles of testing, according to the company.</p>
<p>Google has said that its car has not caused any of the collisions, though in 2011 an employee who took a car to run an errand rear-ended another vehicle while the Google car was out of self-driving mode.</p>
<p>In a blog posted yesterday, the head of Google’s self-driving car programme, Chris Urmson, said his SUVs “are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road”.</p>
<p>In an interview, Mr Urmson said his team was exploring whether its cars could do something to alert distracted drivers before a collision. Honking the horn would be one possibility, but Mr Urmson said he worried that could annoy residents of Mountain View.</p>
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