Self driving cars crash five times as much as regular ones (opens in new tab)

>Still, in spite of the self-driving cars’ high accident rate, the University of Michigan study did not contradict the conclusions of Google GOOG 0.56% and the DMV: The authors agreed that self-driving cars were not to blame in any of their crashes

That's little consolation when you've just crashed.

And it basically translates in that they're not very good (compared to humans) in handling active crisis situations on the road, where another driver took a bad turn, there was some obstacle, etc.

>Finally, self-driving cars actually have a lower fatality rate, with zero deaths resulting from their crashes

Obviously, since they have not driven even 1/100.000 of the miles that regular cars have had.

IMHO autonomous driving systems still do not mix well with humans on the road. Could even say they are not compatible with each other. With how things have been going, soon we would have systems predicting behavior of human driver for safer driving. But by then, roads will have humans, systems predicting human behavior and systems released between the two without prediction.

The article title is poorly written: the cars were at fault in none of these accidents. Most of these accidents were cases where the self-driving car was rear-ended.