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We are witnessing the beginning of the end of motor-vehicle related deaths in America.

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Jeff Dean

@JeffDean

Dec 19

After 25.3 million autonomous miles driven, @Waymo vehicles have an 88% reduction in property damage claims and a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims compared to human drivers per mile driven.

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Phil Walkability

@PhilSustainable

Dec 21

How can waymo fix congestion and traffic tho. We need a waymo bus

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Waymo bus would be awesome

I’m not skeptical that autonomous vehicles will be much safer than human drivers, but couldn’t part of this be that most of the Waymo driving is done in the city, rather than on highways (where I assume most vehicular fatalities occur)?

Sure but I would imagine most property damage happens in town and that was down significantly as well

My insurance premiums are going to be fucked when the country goes fully autonomous lol

This + automated trains will be for the history books.

we will look back at vehicle-related deaths the same way we look back at pregnancy-related deaths

What’s more exceptional is the current admin did almost anything they could to shut down AVs while Sitting over the first increase in deaths/VMT over a 4 year period in modern American history.

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Data Science With Dennis

@DSWithDennis

23h

You didn't read their safety report, did you?

AM Gbadebo

@AMGbadebo

23h

No, we are not.

Jon Elder | Amazon Growth | Private Label

@BlackLabelAdvsr

Dec 21

You can pry my V8 truck from my cold dead hands.

Poi - High Utah October 2-15

@poiThePoi

Dec 20

It's not "the end", but it does move it from very serious thing that we honestly ought to notice more (and don't b/c laughs in that one NYC murder chart, 1955-1995) to rounding error upon rounding error.

How much does a Waymo cost (to purchase)? Can they fit in a garage?

Brian Moore

@brian_g_moore

Dec 20

Yes. In the future, only rich people will be able to control their own cars.

South Philly Politic

@SPolitic

Dec 20

It’s going be 50 years at least before this technology makes a meaningful impact nationwide.

Hear me out: we put all these waymos on a track only for waymos and tie them together to make the cabins big enough to move around in. THEN passengers pay 1 fixed fee to get on/off. It'll reduce accidents. Silicon valley give me $1 Billion now. I did not reinvent anything.