Google Says Self-Driving Vehicles Were Involved in 11 Accidents

Google Inc. said its self-driving vehicles have been involved in 11 minor accidents in the six years they’ve been in testing, and the automobiles were never to blame for the incidents.

All of the accidents during 1.7 million miles of manual and autonomous driving included light damage and no injuries, said Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car program, in a post on technology news website Backchannel on blog platform Medium. The majority of the collisions happened when the experimental cars were hit from behind, with some on the freeway and some at traffic lights.