How can you hide accidents that occur on public, urban roads? Perhaps accidents with very minor damage, but wouldn't any significant accident already be reported, as the police would be involved?
Yes, but they would just be considered regular car accidents, not accidents registered on the company's "official log of self-driving car accidents".
I see. So the difference is really just a more easily accessible list of accidents. I'm sure records of "regular accidents" would include descriptions of the car involved, and a determined person could FOIA the information about all accidents an Uber self driving car was involved in regardless, right?
FOIA? All the accident reports for autonomous vehicles are publicly accessible via the web. Not only that, but the companies are required to document each time the driver takes over. Again, all accessible via the web. The reporting requirements would have doomed Uber.