Driverless cars in California rack up four accidents since September

One goal of driverless cars is make the roads safer by eliminating human error as a cause for accidents. Unfortunately, for the supporters of driverless cars cruising the streets of California, four of the 50 driverless cars licensed to operate on the streets of the state have been in accidents since September. California started issuing permits for testing self-driving cars in September of 2014.

The driverless cars weren’t at fault on two of the four accidents that have occurred, in those incidents the driver, who is required to be behind the wheel at all times, was at fault in the accidents. However, in the other two accidents, the cars were in control at the time of the accident.

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