"2× more accidents than human drivers" The last time I checked, they didn't have more accidents. They logged more accidents (because, by the nature of being a

"2× more accidents than human drivers" The last time I checked, they didn't have more accidents. They logged more accidents (because, by the nature of being a highly-documented research and PR project, they logged all accidents). One of the difficulties that Google mentioned was that nobody has ever before done a study of this size, and they unfortunately don't have data to compare to, because minor accidents need not be reported, and there are obvious incentives not to (hassle, cops, insurance premium). "[autonomous] ride-for-hire cars on the road before too long" They are at the stage where they can drive along a carefully mapped sections of roads. The state of the art is what Tesla has. Fully autonomous vehicles are nowhere on anyone's horizon. I don't know what Naughton is selling, but I'm not buying it.