{"id":992,"date":"2024-06-19T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/self-driving-cars-found-to-be-safer-except-at-dawn-dusk-or-when-turning-according-to-study\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:02:54","slug":"self-driving-cars-found-to-be-safer-except-at-dawn-dusk-or-when-turning-according-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.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":"<div>\n<p>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<p>Autonomous vehicles are involved in fewer accidents than cars driven by humans, researchers from the <strong>University of Central Florida <\/strong>have found.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>However, although the research generally showed <strong>self-driving cars<\/strong> to be safer, it did discover they seem more prone to accidents in specific situations.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>While turning, self-driving cars were nearly two times more likely to have an accident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>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<p><strong>Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026<\/strong>, after a new law passed in May.<\/p>\n<p>The law is intended to create jobs as well as improve road safety by \u201creducing human error, which contributes to 88% of road collisions\u201d, according to the Department for Transport.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Nearly a third (29%) of people worried about how the car would deal with accidents.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Autonomous vehicles were also shown to be safer when they were hit from behind or from the side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars are safer than those driven by humans, except when it is dusk, dawn,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}