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"Self-driving cars have a higher crash rate than conventional vehicles.Transition "Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) got into more crashes overall: 9.1 crashes per million miles driven, compared with 4.1 crashes per million miles for conventional vehicles" (Miller, "First Driverless Car Crash Study: Autonomous Vehicles Crash More, but Injuries Are Less Serious")."