Regulation & Safety

Human drivers are bumping into driverless cars and exposing a key flaw

Accident rates are twice as high for driverless cars as for regular cars, but the driverless cars have never been at fault.
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By:
Keith Naughton
December 18, 2015 05:00 AM

DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opposite right now: The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of those with human drivers.

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