Road Safety with Self-Driving Vehicles: General Limitations and Road Sharing with Conventional Vehicles

This report offers a review of some of the safety aspects of driverless vehicles as predicted by proponents of the technology. The researchers posit that driverless transportation will not lead to zero-fatalities as some claim, and that, in fact, accidents may increase in the transition phase when driven and autonomous vehicles share the road, at least for driven vehicles. Instead, driverless vehicles may not be any safer than those driven today by an experienced, middle-aged driver.”

Here is the report from University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute on Road Safety with Self-Driving Vehicles.