Google sibling company Waymo's fully self-driving cars have 85% fewer accidents than humans

Waymo, a self-driving car development company, operates a fully self-driving taxi service in multiple regions, and has already dispatched more than 700,000 taxis. Newly, Waymo has released data showing that its fully self-driving cars have fewer accidents than cars driven by humans.

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https://waymo.com/blog/2023/12/waymo-significantly-outperforms.html

Waymo is a company developing fully self-driving cars under the umbrella of Google's parent company Alphabet. Waymo has already launched fully self-driving taxi services in areas such as San Francisco and Phoenix, and in October 2023, it will also launch a service that allows users to hail Waymo's fully self-driving taxis from the Uber app.

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Waymo has provided ride-hailing services more than 700,000 times, and the total mileage of fully autonomous vehicles has exceeded 7.14 million miles (approximately 11.5 million kilometers) as of the end of October 2023. In order to demonstrate the safety of its fully self-driving cars, Waymo has released data comparing the number of accidents between fully self-driving cars and cars driven by humans.

The number of ``collisions with all kinds of injuries, from minor accidents to severe fatalities'' per million miles (1.61 million kilometers) was 2.78 for humans, whereas Waymo's fully self-driving cars The number of cases was 0.41, which is 85% fewer than that. In addition, the number of ``police-reported accidents'' per million miles was 4.85 for humans, while fully self-driving cars had 2.1, 57% fewer than for humans.

Below is a graph comparing the incidence of ``accidents reported by the police'' (light blue) and ``collisions involving all kinds of injuries, from minor accidents to severe fatalities'' (dark blue) by region. Fully self-driving cars caused 51% fewer ``police-reported accidents'' than humans in Phoenix, and 70% fewer than humans in San Francisco. In addition, ``collisions involving all kinds of injuries, from minor accidents to severe fatalities'' were 80% lower in Phoenix than humans, and 90% lower in San Francisco than humans. This result is influenced by the fact that ``the number of human-involved crashes in San Francisco is three times higher than the national average.''

In addition, Waymo claims that international standardization of accident data is necessary in order to accurately understand the situation of accidents in fully automated driving cars.