Waymo study finds that self-driving cars have 84% fewer serious crashes and 73% fewer accidents involving injuries than human drivers
Waymo, a self-driving car development company, operates fully self-driving taxi businesses in multiple regions, and has exceeded 22 million miles (about 35.4 million kilometers) in total distance traveled by the end of June 2024. Waymo has recently released data showing that its fully self-driving cars have fewer accidents than cars driven by humans.
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Waymo is a company that develops fully autonomous vehicles under the umbrella of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Waymo has previously deployed fully autonomous taxi services in areas such as San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, and reported that in August 2024, 'the number of trips per week exceeded 100,000.'
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Additionally, Waymo has released data comparing the number of accidents between self-driving cars and human-driven cars to demonstrate the safety of its self-driving cars.
Waymo estimates that for every 22 million miles driven by a human driver, there would be 31 crashes serious enough to deploy the airbags, whereas Waymo's self-driving cars have only five serious crashes over the same distance, 84% fewer than humans.
In addition, the rate of injury accidents caused by fully autonomous vehicles was 73% lower than that of human drivers, with only 20 injury accidents occurring out of 22 million miles driven.
Additionally, the rate of police-reported accidents was 48% lower than with human drivers.
Below is a graph comparing the incidence of 'serious crashes with airbag deployment' (green), 'injury accidents' (blue), and 'police-reported accidents' (beige) by region. In San Francisco, where the system was most effective, the incidence of serious crashes, injury accidents, and police-reported accidents was 91%, 77%, and 54% lower than that of human drivers, respectively.
Waymo has explained the safety systems installed in its fully self-driving cars, claiming that they are programmed to obey traffic rules such as stop signs and speed limits, and are equipped with advanced detection and collision avoidance capabilities to respond quickly to potential hazards in real time.
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Noah Goodall, a civil engineer who has studied road safety for many years, praised Waymo, saying, 'Waymo has a full-time safety research team and regularly publishes its research in reputable journals. It is the best company out there that is running a fully autonomous taxi service.'
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