Self-driving cars may be all the rage right now with consumer vehicles, but they're still a work in progress. Apple has nearly 60 different self-driving Lexus RX 450h crossover SUVs, and one of them had the company's first traffic accident.

According to a report by the California DMV, an autonomous Apple vehicle was rear-ended by a Nissan Leaf while in a merging lane on the Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale, California.

The controversial nature of the incident is due to the Apple car slowing to a speed of 1 MPH while looking for a safe opportunity to merge onto the highway. This led to the Leaf striking the vehicle from behind at 15 MPH. No one was injured in the event.

This shows us some of the ways that autonomous vehicles will have a hard time interacting with human drivers, leading to problems. We've all had those awkward instances where no one will let you merge or change lanes in a crowded road. This usually forces drivers to act more aggressively in order to get to their lane. Except that a self-driving car won't do that.

The vehicle was technically following all traffic laws exactly as they should have, but would this have happened with a human driver? Such an argument was said when a self-driving Uber struck a jaywalking woman in the middle of the night.

Apple remains firm in their project and will continue to develop it as they already are.

Considering this is the first instance out of 60 vehicles, I'm a little impressed.