Google Cars Not Causing Crashes: Let the Robots Drive

Last week, Google released its monthly stats on accidents involving its self-driving cars dating through August 31, 2015. Google vehicles have been involved in 16 fender-benders since 2010, the first year that Google started to test its self-driving cars. In every single one of those incidents, the Google Car was not at fault. In 13 of the incidents, a Google Car was rear-ended while stopped or slowing down. We have been tracking Google Car Crash data since it started coming out. (Below is a bar chart of accidents by cause.)



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