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Waymo’s driverless cars crash way less often than humans: report (driving.ca)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Fatalities and serious injuries sound like a far more important statistic to optimize for in terms of public safety.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    They would need to have more of them first for the data to actually be accurate at all. From what I could find, there have been no Waymo caused fatalities - two deaths caused by other drivers though - and four serious injuries, for roughly 220 million miles driven.

    While you can then state that the rate of fatalities is 1 per 110 million miles, it's not really useful in any way.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Looking at the raw data from NYC, in 2025 there were 15 crashes with fatalities and only 3 with serious injuries. To follow your train of thought, I would think the survivability of a serious crash is important to optimize for, and Waymo has a better ratio for that (4 to 2 versus 3 to 15).

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