Self-driving cars have proven to be safer

According to a new study, self-driving cars are safer than human-driven ones, except when it’s dusk, dawn or when the vehicle is reversing.

Autonomous vehicles are involved in fewer accidents than cars driven by humans, researchers at University of Central Florida I found.

However, although research has generally shown self-driving cars to be sure, he found that they seem more prone to accidents in specific situations.

In low-light conditions at dawn or dusk, they were five times more likely to have an accident than a car driven by humans.

While turning, self-driving cars were nearly twice as likely to crash.

There have been a number of high-profile self-driving car accidents, and just last week, a car in self-driving mode crashed into a police car in California while officers were responding to a fatal collision.

Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026after a new law passed in May.

The law is intended to create jobs as well as improve road safety by “reducing human error, which contributes to 88% of road collisions,” according to the Department for Transport.

Last year, a study by the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers suggested that seven out of ten people would be uncomfortable traveling in an autonomous vehicle without human control.

Almost a third (29%) of people were worried about how the car would handle crashes.

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The researchers, Mohamed Abdel-Aty and Shengxuan Ding, compared crash data collected from 2,100 autonomous vehicles and 35,133 human-driven vehicles between 2016 and 2022.

They found that autonomous vehicles were less likely to be involved in accidents when performing routine driving tasks such as maintaining lane positions and adapting to traffic flow.

Autonomous vehicles have also been shown to be safer when hit from behind or from the side.