Yesterday I asked you a question ''would you buy a self-driving car?'' some answered my question by saying ''No!'' That's good. But what some of those companies testing driverless car had been hidden from us might shock you: Four of the forty-eight autonomous cars allowed to drive themselves in California have been involved in accidents. Well they were minor accident as the companies put it. Some guys who spoke on the condition of anonymity revealed this to the Associated Press.
Since September 2014, Three Google's self-driving Lexus SUVs and an Audi Q5 have crashed while on test-drive in California and they never disclosed it to us.Yes that same Audi Q5 that drove from San Francisco to New York City without a driver behind the wheel. Associated Press said two accidents occurred when the car was in autonomous mode and the other two happened when the human driver took control of the car. 50-50!
But hours after Associated Press published the report, Google revealed in a statement that its autonomous cars were involved in 11 minor accidents since it started experimenting with the tech since 2009. It also said that its cars had avoided ''many major accidents over 1.7 million miles travelled'' and that these minor accidents were not caused by the human driver nor the driverless car. So what could be the cause?
Note: All four self-driving vehicles involved in accidents were travelling at speeds less than 10 miles per hour.