At least there won’t be any road rage if self-driving cars hit each other.
After six years of driving in test lots and on California roads, Google’s self-driving cars have covered 1.8 million miles and racked up exactly a dozen accidents, according to the project’s monthly report for May 2015 (the first time it included accident information in the report).
Due to the rarity of self-driving cars, there had been little to no risk of one bumping into another autonomous vehicle—until now.
Last week, two autonomous cars, operated by Google and Audi, reportedly had a close call on the streets of Silicon Valley, according to Reuters, making it the first known near collision of its kind.
