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38 crashes might sound like a lot, but those crashes occurred over more than 30 million miles of driving. If humans were driving those miles we would have had several times as many crashes.
But perhaps the most astounding fact is that Waymo faced only two potentially successful bodily injury insurance claims during its first 25 million miles. Human drivers generate bodily injury claims more than 10 times as often.
Could that be because self-driving cars are less predictable than human drivers and you cannot communicate them as you would with a human driver?
In my experience, I find Tesla cars much less predictable.
I don’t think so. The overall number of Waymo crashes per mile is far smaller (~5x) than with human drivers.
Out of curiosity, how do 1. 20% riskiest drivers 2. 20% safest drivers and 3. Waymo compare?
Waymo seems to be safer than the average driver so I'd say they are much safer than the riskiest drivers. I don't know of any studies comparing them to the 20 percent safest drivers.
I'm sure some of these were unavoidable, but it raises an interesting point: Does Waymo adjust well if someone else ISN'T following the rules? Where a human driver would honk & swerve & swear but avoid an accident, does Waymo tend to keep robotically following the rules?
The fact that Waymo's overall rate of serious crashes is ~5x lower than humans suggests that Waymo does pretty well when the other car isn't following the rules.
I trust robots way more than the humans out there. Think of the goobers out there behind the wheel! [human]
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First the 15 minute city concept, and now these. They want to corral and control you, and if you give up freedom for safety, you deserve neither.
Sounds promising but don’t you think it’s a bit suspicious that the company sued to prevent the release of its safety records?
They move so slow that drivers do all sorts of stupid stuff to get around them