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YIMBYLAND

@YIMBYLAND

This is miracle-level technology.

Three vertical bars on a dark background, each representing a category of vulnerable road users. The first bar shows a pedestrian icon with "92% Fewer pedestrian crashes with injuries" and "35 FEWER" in blue text. The second bar shows a bicycle icon with "78% Fewer cyclist crashes with injuries" and "22 FEWER" in blue text. The third bar shows a motorcycle icon with "89% Fewer motorcycle crashes with injuries" and "16 FEWER" in blue text.

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Ethan Teicher

@ethanteicher

13h

96M miles of @Waymo safety data just dropped

10:38 AM · Sep 16, 2025

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Sohel Sanghani

@SohelSanghani

10h

i fear it will fall victim to the same "planes are more dangerous than cars" logic yes, the data says robot cars are overwhelmingly safer but the idea of 1 robot crashing your car and killing you over-rides all rational thought

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Golfguy21

@Golfguy21553001

There is a future where bad drivers will not be able to afford to insure without a self driving system.

kinda wild that all the "zero traffic death" people aren't pushing harder for waymos ubiquitously in cities

As a commuter, Waymos are very pleasant and predictable to share the road with.

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Burning Tokens

@unaliveolives

this is about where humans would be if they didn't drive drunk, reckless, or distracted. But since they will...

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Greg

@GregNotSure

If this is compared to the overall car use, then it is misleading. It should be compared to for hire rides.

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Adub08

@adub0808

I mean true, but also this is kind of expected. You have a computer with actual lightning fast reflexes looking 10 different ways at one time. I mean, its great for sure, but that’s how it should be

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Bean Bytes

@BeanBytes

Self driving cars will be one of the greatest boons to public health in decades.

supremeMilo

@supremeMilo

11h

Cyclists can’t catch a break.

Those 15 minute cities will show even better. Just lock everyone up in their little peleton equipped cell and we'll all be "safe".

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@thotfulremarks

Ehhh…they control for “road type” so we do not have evidence about Waymo’s performance on roads as a 1:1 comparison, especially in high accident areas. That would be more valuable information

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Ethan Teicher

@ethanteicher

Replying to @itsdono and @Waymo

Wrong. We control for road types.

J. D.

@JamesDowell2

Are these stats "risk adjusted"? I.e., accounting for differences in where waymo vehicles versus the general pop. are actually driving? In my field of healthcare quality measurement, this would be a good example of an apples to oranges comparison where you would need to do that.

The first urban core that does "robot drivers only" and has near 0 deaths that year will spark a revolution

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Alejandro de la Vega (@neurozorro.bsky.social)

@elneurozorro

The honest answer is that it's truly hard to do this analysis without fully scaling out, because the two datasets come from different distributions. That said, using the ol' eyeball test, they definitely seem safer, simply because the cautiousness is turned way up.

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Dominic Bendinelli

@dbendinelli7

Therefor it is unlikely to have a full robust rollout. We don’t get to have nice things.

Is that compare to the same kind of trips? Like if Waymo doesn't go on the interstate, does that comparison ignore human drivers on the interstate?

In my lazy estimation this market is $1T and will support a market cap of $10T at a 10x rev multiple. There's still time to buy more GOOG or TSLA as they inch closer to duopolizing it.

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Larry P. Arnn

@DrLarryArnn

I am saddened to record this. I am a better man for having known my friend

@charliekirk11

, just as this country is better for his work. Charlie had a curious mind and wanted to improve it. He sought to know the basic things of this Earth and how they reach to Heaven, where he