Google’s driverless car has finally crashed. Might humans be safer?

A first last week: a Google driverless car in autonomous mode was partly at fault in a collision, interestingly one involving a bus. The car was merging into a lane of faster-moving traffic to dodge a pile of sandbags in a collapsed drain and nudged in ahead of the bus on the assumption that its driver would give way.

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Rory Sutherland is vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK.

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Google's driverless car has finally crashed. Might humans be safer?

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