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According to an article by the AP - via an ad-free site several of the self driving cars licensed to drive in California have been involved in accidents.
Most are slow speed accidents, apparently with no injuries.
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads. Two accidents happened while the cars were in control; in the other two, the person who still must be behind the wheel was driving, a person familiar with the accident reports told The Associated Press.
Three involved Lexus SUVs that Google Inc. outfitted with sensors and computing power in its aggressive effort to develop "autonomous driving," a goal the tech giant shares with traditional automakers. The parts supplier Delphi Automotive had the other accident with one of its two test vehicles. Google and Delphi said their cars were not at fault in any accidents, which the companies said were minor.
Neither the companies involved, nor the State of California will release details of these accidents, which rankles some critics.
Four accidents involving these 50 cars in 8 months may seem a little high. Google's 23 cars have driven 140,000 miles in that time and racked up 3 accidents all by them selves. That is an order of magnitude higher than the National Transportation Safety Board's figures of 0.3 per 100,000 for non injury accidents. However the NTSB doesn't collect all fender bender accidents.
The article says that none of the other states that permit self driving cars have any record of accidents.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday May 11 2015, @07:53PM
Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All
First of all, who said there were ever going to be accident free while humans are still out there driving? Secondly, you could at least acknowledge that it's even possible that the accidents weren't the autonomous car's fault (which does in fact appear to be the case in all four accidents).
That is an order of magnitude higher than the National Transportation Safety Board's figures of 0.3 per 100,000 for non injury accidents.
What's the rate per 100,000 for all accidents?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:29AM
I said it elsewhere, but they have also chosen to narrow their data selection to the one state where there were accidents, and not include the other cars from the other states where testing is happening, but there have been no accidents at all. What's the total number of autonomous cars on the road, how many total miles have they racked up, and are we still only at 4 accidents for all of them, and none of them involved any injury (and as you say, only 2 of them were under autonomous control)