Only 300...
Only?
300 incidents in a million miles is actually 160 times the accident rate for a standard automobile.
And, since Google cars don’t make an attempt in bad weather like snow or heavy rain, the numbers are skewed even worse.
This put the Google experiment squarely in the ‘test’ stage, and nowhere near ready for consumer use.
It’s a new technology. It’s isn’t supposed to be perfect yet. But not being perfect yet is a far cry from “never going to happen”. It’s like saying we’ll never get to the moon because Apollo 13 had problems.
Google is still squarely in the test stage. Meanwhile, Tesla, Mercedes, BMW have shipped.