(Bloomberg) — Google Inc. said its self-driving vehicles havebeen involved in 11 minor accidents in the six years they've beenin testing, and the automobiles were never to blame for theincidents.
Hit from behind
All of the accidents during 1.7 million miles of manual andautonomous driving included light damage and no injuries, saidChris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car program, in apost on technology news website Backchannel on blog platformMedium. The majority of the collisions happened when theexperimental cars were hit from behind, with some on the freewayand some at traffic lights.
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