Virginia Tech report finds national crash rate for conventional vehicles higher than crash rate of self-driving cars

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinJan 9, 2016, 6:02 am456 ptsTrending
A new report, “Automated Vehicle Crash Rate Comparison Using Naturalistic Data,” performed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and commissioned by Google, shows that the crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars. Results show that when data is…

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