NOT ENTIRELY CRASH PROOF: Google self-driving cars, of which there are now more than 20, have been in 11 minor accidents in the six years since the project began but they reportedly didn't cause any of the crashes.
SAN FRANCISCO: Google said that even self-driving cars that can sense and react faster than humans still wind up in accidents.
“We’ve been hit from behind seven times, mainly at traffic lights but also on the freeway,” Chris Urmson, the head of Google’s autonomous car programme, said in an online post.
