Toyota Camry Incident

A Ghost autonomous vehicle was hit by crash debris while traveling on [XXX]. The Ghost vehicle neither hit nor was hit by another vehicle. The Ghost car was traveling in AV mode with two safety drivers. Traffic slowed quickly, apparently due to a crash ahead of the Ghost car. Consistent with their training, the Ghost driver took control of the car by manually braking and disengaging the autonomous system. The car was traveling 55.3 mph when the driver began to brake. The Ghost car stopped without impacting the preceding car. A Mercedes car immediately following the Ghost car also came to a stop without impacting the Ghost car. Ghost's understanding based on communications at the scene is that a Grand Cherokee traveling behind the Mercedes tried to swerve to avoid impacting the Mercedes but clipped the Mercedes and rolled over. To Ghost's knowledge, nobody in the Grand Cherokee was injured. The Ghost drivers heard a noise and then found that the rear bumper of the Ghost car had been damaged, which Ghost believes resulted from crash debris. The Ghost drivers drove the Ghost car back to the garage in conventional mode.