Contrary to its earlier stand on the issue, Google will now disclose to the world whenever any of its driverless cars meets with an accident. In fact, the Mountain View-based tech giant has already launched a website dedicated to its driverless cars and will provide all accident related reports involving its automated vehicles on this website.

A report in IB Times states that the monthly reports will, however, not provide information regarding the human drivers needed to ride along in the cars. According to CNET, the latest move by the search engine giant is a reversal of its previous standpoint of not releasing accident reports for its driverless cars and comes only a few days after Google co-founder Sergey Brin defended the company's policy.

"We don't claim that the cars are going to be perfect. Our goal is to beat human drivers," Brin was quoted as saying. The Google co-founder added, "Nothing can be a perfect vehicle. I just wanted to set that expectation."

According to the company, since the driverless car project began in 2009, the automated vehicles of Google have been involved in 12 minor accidents. It also asserted that none of its vehicles were at fault in any of these accidents.

In addition to information related to the accidents, Google has said that it will also provide additional data, including the manner in which its automated vehicles react to certain situations, number of miles the vehicles has driven and the number of vehicles is in its fleet currently. For instance, in its May report, Google details how its cars are able to track multiple objects and actively give way to emergency vehicles and cyclists.

Until May, Google has 23 of its Lexus RX 450h self-driving cars on public streets, mostly in Mountain View, California. At the same time, currently nine of its e prototype vehicles are being tested on closed tracks. The vehicles, which have been designed in-house, will hit the road soon, but their speed will be limited to 25 mph.

Since the commencement of the project, the self-driving cars of Google have logged over 1.8 million miles and more than 50 percent of those miles were in automated mode. The remaining miles logged were driven by human drivers.