{"id":4292,"date":"2024-06-19T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/self-driving-cars-found-to-be-safer-except-at-dawn-dusk-or-when-turning-according-to-study\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:42:12","slug":"self-driving-cars-found-to-be-safer-except-at-dawn-dusk-or-when-turning-according-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/self-driving-cars-found-to-be-safer-except-at-dawn-dusk-or-when-turning-according-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars found to be safer \u2013 except at dawn, dusk, or when turning, according to study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Self-driving cars are safer than those driven by humans, except when it is dusk, dawn, or the vehicle is turning, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Autonomous vehicles are involved in fewer accidents than cars driven by humans, researchers from the University of Central Florida <\/strong>have found.<\/p>\n

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However, although the research generally showed self-driving cars<\/strong> to be safer, it did discover they seem more prone to accidents in specific situations.<\/p>\n

During low-light conditions at dawn or dusk, they were more than five times more likely to have an accident than a human-driven car.<\/p>\n

While turning, self-driving cars were nearly two times more likely to have an accident.<\/p>\n

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There have been a number of high profile crashes of self-driving cars and just last week, a car in self-driving mode crashed into a police car in California while officers were responding to a deadly collision.<\/p>\n

Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026<\/strong>, after a new law passed in May.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Last year, a UK study by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers suggested seven out of ten people would be uncomfortable travelling in an autonomous vehicle with no human control.<\/p>\n

Nearly a third (29%) of people worried about how the car would deal with accidents.<\/p>\n

The researchers, Mohamed Abdel-Aty and Shengxuan Ding, compared accident data collected from 2,100 autonomous vehicles and 35,133 human-driven vehicles between 2016 and 2022.<\/p>\n

They found that autonomous vehicles were less likely to be involved in accidents when performing routine driving tasks, such as maintaining lane positions and adjusting to the flow of traffic.<\/p>\n

Autonomous vehicles were also shown to be safer when they were hit from behind or from the side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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