With autonomous vehicle operators now required to report their crashes, we finally have some data to compare robot drivers to human drivers when it comes to road safety. Here’s one good argument for a robot-driving future: Human drivers are more likely to get in crashes that hurt or kill other humans. For a new study, the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute took the crash records of three self-driving vehicles currently on US roads—Google, Audi,…
Study: Humans driving cars are more likely to hurt other humans than self-driving cars
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