Google Says Self-Driving Cars Blameless in 11 Accidents in 6 Years, 1.7M Miles
Google Inc. said its self-driving vehicles have been involved in 11 minor accidents in the six years they’ve been in testing, and the automobiles were never to blame for the incidents. All of the...
View ArticleDriverless Car Accidents Pile Up As They Obey Laws, Humans Don’t So Much
The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opposite right now: The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of...
View ArticleCrash Rates Lower for Self-Driving Cars: Virginia Tech Study
Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by...
View ArticleDaughter of Pedestrian Killed by Uber Driverless Car Hires Lawyer
The daughter of the woman killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona has retained a personal injury lawyer, underlying the potential high stakes of the first fatality caused by an autonomous...
View ArticleWhy Not Just Retrain Pedestrians to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Safer?
You’re crossing the street wrong. That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle...
View ArticleAccident Report Confirms Apple Still in Autonomous Car Race
An Apple Inc. self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters this month, the company said in an accident report posted on Friday that...
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