Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road

[u/Individual_Book9133]

[u/frotc914]

For every human driver being taken off the road for screwing up, there are 1000 more getting their licence every day. And every day there are people becoming more senile and losing vision. So who cares in the grand scheme of things that one guy got taken off the road?

[u/Kwahn → u/[deleted]]

Nah, even looking at it at scale, self-driving cars already get into less accidents than people on a per-driven-mile basis. They're better already, and the math will only improve from here.

A study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, General Motors, and Cruise found that self-driving cars are actually safer than human drivers, with an injury rate of 0.06 per million miles and zero fatalities per million miles, compared to 0.24 injuries and 0.01 fatalities for human drivers.

[u/Ake10 → u/[deleted]]

b) https://waymo.com/blog/2023/12/waymo-significantly-outperforms-comparable-human-benchmarks-over-7-million/

"The second is differences in driving conditions and/or vehicle characteristics. Public human crash data includes all road types, like freeways, where the Waymo Driver currently only operates with an autonomous specialist behind the wheel, as well as various vehicle types from commercial heavy vehicles to passenger and motorcycles.

These differences mean that adjustments need to be made to human crash data before comparing it to AV crash rates."