Google’s Self-Driving Cars Caught In 11 Prangs, But It’s All Part Of The Process

The inevitable, some might say, has happened: Google’s self-driving cars have bent a fender or two while testing on public roads.

Not just one collision, in fact, but a total of 11 'incidents' have already been clocked up during testing by the more than 20 vehicles involved in the project - all of them described as "minor".

And here’s the good news for those interested in the merits of autonomous cars: Google sheets the blame for all of the collisions to driver error, and not its software.

Furthermore, as the Google program has clocked up 1.7 million miles (2.7 million kilometres) of testing, that’s just one collision per 245,454km. 

That statistic doesn’t include the collisions that were avoided thanks to some quick thinking from the software - dare we say, in some instances; quicker than a human could react.