Shortly after the disclosure by the Agency The Associated Press evidence that from September 2014 in road traffic accidents has been four driverless car Google, the Internet giant has published in the edition of Backchannel article, which is partially described all road incidents with their machines. According to Google, there are 11 such an accident, but cars are not the culprits in any of them.

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Shortly after the disclosure by the Agency The Associated Press evidence that from September 2014 in road traffic accidents has been four driverless car Google, the Internet giant has published in the edition of Backchannel article, which is partially described all road incidents with their machines. According to Google, there are 11 such an accident, but cars are not the culprits in any of them.

IT-giant clarifies that all accidents are minor: in seven of them, people not keeping distance and crashed into a car from behind on two occasions the car has been side impact, and in another case-controlled man traveled through a red light and rammed the car of Google.

So the Americans emphasize that the set of "soulless" sensors and algorithms make the car more safe in comparison with when they manned. At the same time imperfect driving skills of a person playing an unmanned transport only, because they allow developers to use more sophisticated algorithms.

As previously reported by AP, a permit to test driverless cars have five large companies. All have so far managed to avoid an accident. Mention of such occurrences and no official reports of States where Autonomous vehicles allowed to travel on public roads (Nevada, Michigan and Florida).