GM's Fleet Of 100 Self Driving Vehicles Were Involved In 6 Accidents Last Month

General Motors Co’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, has more than doubled the size of its test fleet of robot cars in California during the past three months, a GM spokesman said on Wednesday.

As the company increases the size of its test fleet, it has also reported more run-ins between its self-driving cars and human-operated vehicles and bicycles, telling California regulators its vehicles were involved in six minor crashes in the state in September.

“All our incidents this year were caused by the other vehicle,” said Rebecca Mark, spokeswoman for GM Cruise.

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Agent009 - 10/5/2017 9:39:45 AM

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So at this rate GM will have 72 accidents a year per 100 vehicles. Just just Google (Waymo), these car are getting into a disproportional amount of wrecks that are not the fault of the self driving vehicle.

Obviously they are doing something different than a human driver that causes them to be involved far more often in accidents.

atc98092 - 10/5/2017 10:01:57 AM

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Yeah, they're following the law to the letter. Very few human drivers do that 100% of the time. Most likely none of us do completely. :)

Agent009 - 10/5/2017 12:43:29 PM

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All black and white decisions and hence the problem there is no fuzzy logic.