Friday 4 March 2016  Lorna Sharpe, sub-editor Google admits responsibility for self-driving car crash Google has acknowledged some responsibility for a low-speed accident involving a bus and one of its self-driving cars. That’s significant, because all the Google Car’s previous prangs have been blamed on mistakes by the human drivers of the other vehicles involved. In this case it seems the car’s software misjudged what the bus driver would do, which just goes to show that computers are still some way off understanding real people. Stretchable electronics could pave the way for smart clothing Researchers in Switzerland have demonstrated a … Continue reading E&T news weekly #84 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week