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Originally Posted by darcane
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... |
Looks like I overestimated a bit. Google's cars have only driven 1 million miles autonomously.
Google acknowledges 11 accidents with its self-driving cars
The other 700k were manually driven.