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Google has launched a monthly report to round-up progress of its self-driving cars as the technology giant refines its software.
The report revealed Google is currently testing 23 self-driving Lexus RX450h 4x4 on public roads, mainly around the Mountain View area in California. It is also testing nine prototypes, which are self-driving on closed test tracks.
Since 2009, Google said its vehicles have covered 1,011,338 miles in autonomous mode (where the software is driving the vehicles and safety drivers are not touching the controls) and that it is averaging around 10,000 autonomous miles a week on public roads.
The report also shows how its vehicles have reacted to different situations. Google said its vehicles "understand that emergency vehicles behave differently than ordinary trucks, cars and motorcycles," and that its vehicles need to behave differently around them.
"In this example [see picture, above], our car was stopped at a stoplight," the firm wrote in its report, "Our light had turned green, but we detecterd an ambulance approaching - the purple rectangle with the two little red and white symbols on top - so we remained stopped as it passed through the intersection."
Google also included summaries of the 12 accidents involving its cars in the six years of the project. Most accidents involved other vehicles rear-ending the self-driving cars.
The American web giant recently defended its trials in the US following a report from California's Department of Motor Vehicles stating that four accidents have involved self-driving cars within the last nine months.
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