We took a self-driving car on the road for 100 days to see how it handled itself – these are the mistakes it kept making

According to findings published yesterday, researchers at the University of Queensland completed a one hundred day trial of a self-driving car on real roads. They found that autonomous vehicles perform better than many skeptics believe in many situations, yet worse in others. The team documented consistent mistakes the car made throughout the trial, concluding that relatively simple improvements to road infrastructure and signage could significantly enhance safety. The research suggests that the path to safer autonomous vehicles depends not just on better algorithms, but on smarter road design.

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