The self-driving cars created by Google have been getting in multiple fender bender accidents recently with a small number of injuries. Due to the new uproar of technology, the cars and their manufactures are not fully finished with their designs. The cars still need a lot of work since they are only in the testing stages of their existence. The small number of crashes have been occurring based off of little computer programing errors that were not accounted for.

Not all of these cars are driven with a human assistant in the front seat. Since they do not all have a certified assistant driver in them, the cars drive based on the program set up off of the satellite GPS. Human drivers will cut corners, turn right at red lights and ease their way up over the white line to see what they are turning into. Google is already making modifications for the cars to stop taking excessively wide turns into the oncoming traffic, as this has caused most of the accidents.

The vehicles have two different modes that it can be set into, based on if someone is behind the wheel driving or not. The car could be set in a conventional mode for the driver to manually drive the car, or it can be put into the autonomous mode. The autonomous mode is the mode where the car uses its ecosystem in which the sensors help the car run by itself.

The self-driving automobiles run based off of the ecosystem and so as long as humans are driving, the cars will be adjusted accordingly so that they run smoothly with little to no problems with other drivers. This was mainly brought up as an issue because of the cars’ sensors not accommodating for bigger automobiles such as busses and semi trucks that cannot yield or slow down as quickly as smaller ones can.

“We’re going to need new kinds of laws to deal with the consequences of well-intentioned autonomous actions that robots take,” Impact of Artificial Intelligence teacher Jerry Kaplan from Stanford University said in an interview with Natalie Shoemaker from Big Think Writing.

Since the start of self-driving cars in 2014, there have been 34 accidents on Californian roads alone. Almost all of the crashes were while the cars were set in the autonomous mode, as only a few were in the car’s conventional mode. Most of the accidents recorded occurred when the car itself was going under ten miles per hour.

Should self-driving cars still be around if there are so many problems? Is it worth possibly putting your life in danger to have a self-driving car drive you to your next location?  These are questions many people have to ask themselves before taking the ride.