Self-driving cars are involved in twice as many accidents

Self-driving cars are involved in twice as many accidents as ordinary cars¹ because they always obey the law. People just don’t expect anyone to actually follow all rules without exception.²

Notes:
¹ Brandon Schoettle & Michael Sivak, A Preliminary Analysis of Real-World Crashes Involving
Self-Driving Vehicles, The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, October 2015.
² Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw, BloombergBusiness, December 18, 2015.