How Safe Is Your Waymo? Report Finds They Crash 68% Less Than Human Drivers
Teoh explain in a 30-page preprint, this required extended database work. First, researchers sifted through redundant filings by robotaxi services to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to yield 977 unique reports. But Waymo also accounted for the vast majority of the NHTSA data, reflecting its early start and rapid expansion.
- ▪Teoh explain in a 30-page preprint, this required extended database work.
- ▪First, researchers sifted through redundant filings by robotaxi services to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to yield 977 unique reports.
- ▪But Waymo also accounted for the vast majority of the NHTSA data, reflecting its early start and rapid expansion.
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Taking a Waymo ensures that you can’t get stuck with a human driver’s choice of air freshener or talk radio, but a new report from an independent safety lab suggests it will also greatly reduce your risk of getting in a non-trivial accident.The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found that compared with human drivers in the same areas, driverless Waymo vehicles had 68% fewer crashes serious enough to report to police, and of those, only 11% could plausibly be blamed on those autonomous vehicles.
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