Self-Driving Cars Apparently Crash Less
- 8 years ago
With the futuristic industry ahead of us, a new study reported that self-driving cars apparently crash less than human-driven vehicles.
Researchers at the Virginia TechTransportation Institute released their newest research in regards to the upcoming driverless car technology.
The study was commissioned by Google, who already has a small fleet of 50 cars driving around the roads of California and Texas.
The first accident reported was 3 years after the project's inception, in 2012.
That still amounts to a very small number of accidents in spite of the 1.3 million miles of travel in self-driving mode.
In fact, according to the researchers at VTTI, after the adjustments for severity and unreported crashes, self-driving cars reported 3.2 crashes per 1 million miles.
Of course, the researchers admit that their study is limited by the small amount of exposure of driverless cars to real-life situations.
Researchers at the Virginia TechTransportation Institute released their newest research in regards to the upcoming driverless car technology.
The study was commissioned by Google, who already has a small fleet of 50 cars driving around the roads of California and Texas.
The first accident reported was 3 years after the project's inception, in 2012.
That still amounts to a very small number of accidents in spite of the 1.3 million miles of travel in self-driving mode.
In fact, according to the researchers at VTTI, after the adjustments for severity and unreported crashes, self-driving cars reported 3.2 crashes per 1 million miles.
Of course, the researchers admit that their study is limited by the small amount of exposure of driverless cars to real-life situations.