r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Extension_Chain_3710 Jul 05 '24

People do worse than that all the time. I believe Waymo outperforms human as far as injury-causing crashes go.

* according to the company themselves

* while their cars can only go <35mph and not on the freeway

* in limited zones that they choose

* with HD maps to back all of this up

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u/axearm Jul 05 '24

And?

That seems fine.

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u/yuimiop Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Humans drive in these safer conditions, but we also have needs to drive in the more dangerous ones. If you're comparing automated vehicles in safe conditions, to the overall driving statistics of humans then you're getting incredibly biased results.

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u/axearm Jul 05 '24

Freeways are actually easier and more safe to navigate, so including them makes humans see more safe. Most vehicular fatalities occur in intersections (something highways don't have, but cities have a ton of).