Uber's fatal self-driving car crash in Tempe, Arizona is the latest example. On Sunday night, a self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she walked her bicycle across ...

More importantly, if you believe Google, not a single one of those accidents was caused by the self-driving car. Eleven minor accidents in 1.7 million miles is a much less alarming ratio.

If self-driving cars prove to be safer — and involved in fewer accidents — traditional auto insurance may become less necessary and could be replaced by product liability, Jain said.

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While self-driving cars won't get distracted or drive drunk, that only accounts for a third of wrecks that occur, according to the insurance industry. Sean Szymkowski It all started with Gran ...

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As a result, the total number of self-driving car accidents being used for comparison is the study is minuscule, 11. But that's five times the rate of the accident rate in conventional cars, and ...

Self-Driving Cars Are More Accident-Prone, Study Finds. 2 minute read. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images. By Victor Luckerson. November 3, 2015 11:58 AM EST.

Self-driving cars have been hailed as The Next Great Solution for Not Getting Killed, and autonomous vehicles could potentially drastically reduce accidents by minimizing opportunities for human ...

Self-driving cars have experienced a total of 11 accidents between 2012 and September 2015, during which the vehicles covered about 1.2 million miles of road. By contrast, conventional vehicles ...

Before self-driving cars arrive, there are a lot of tough questions to answer—questions we may not be equipped to handle at all, like how to assign blame in the event of a crash.