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Originally Posted by BlueFoot
11 crashes in 1.7 million miles of driving, and all the reported accidents were the fault of other dumbass drivers... rear ending, running a stop sign, etc. They should be more clear to point out how ****ty people really drive and how well the autonomous cars from google have handled that.
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Well, it went from 4 crashes to 11 in one day. Next week, we could be up to 50. :P
11 known accidents over 1.7 million miles is about 1 every 150k miles. I would say that is not far from the average human driver.
According to:
Here's how many car accidents you'll have
The average driver gets in an accident once every 17.9 years. Average US driver drives
13,500 miles per year. So, one reportable accident every 240k miles. Google's robocars don't look so good to me...
Another interesting point from the article linked above... of 30,797 fatal accidents, less than 1000 involved a cell phone (which doesn't necessarily mean it was the cause), or about 3% of all fatal accidents. Looks like we may be exaggerating that concern a bit...