{"id":239415,"date":"2026-06-22T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/driverless-cars-are-on-the-rise-and-now-we-may-know-why-they-crash"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:05:25","slug":"driverless-cars-are-on-the-rise-and-now-we-may-know-why-they-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/driverless-cars-are-on-the-rise-and-now-we-may-know-why-they-crash","title":{"rendered":"Driverless cars are on the rise and now we may know why they crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/driverless-cars-are-on-the-rise-and-now-we-may-know-why-they-crash.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, new algorithms may be able to automatically explain why some self-driving cars crash\u2014a question crucial to answer as more autonomous vehicles take to the roads. This new approach, developed by researchers at King\u2019s College London, reviews past events to explain why specific instances of failure happened, in the hope that this can be used to make improvements in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The research was presented at the 2026 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation.<\/p>\n<p>Self-driving vehicles are increasingly being rolled out across the globe, in cities like London and San Francisco, but collisions and serious breaches of road safety have put pressure on manufacturers to explain why they make the mistakes they do. This is often hard to do, and current methods only provide limited explanations for these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, new algorithms may be able to automatically explain why some self-driving cars crash\u2014a question crucial to answer as more autonomous vehicles take to the roads. This new approach, developed by researchers at King\u2019s College London, reviews past events to explain why specific instances of failure happened, in the hope that this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}