Waymos Sicherheitszentrum deckt jetzt 271 Millionen fahrerlose Meilen ab: 0,01 Unfälle mit schweren Verletzungen pro Million Meilen, gegenüber 0,21 beim menschlichen Maßstab in denselben Bereichen. Eine unabhängige IIHS-Studie auf der Grundlage älterer Daten (2021–2024, etwa 50 Millionen Meilen) ergab 81 % weniger Unfälle mit Verletzungen, obwohl Austin etwas schlechter abgeschnitten hat als menschliche Fahrer. Semafor berichtet nun, dass Waymo bis Ende 2027 von etwa 4.000 Autos auf 20.000 steigen will, finanziert durch einen Kredit in Höhe von 5 Milliarden US-Dollar.
Waymo’s robotaxis had 95% fewer serious crashes than humans. Now it plans a fleet of 20,000 cars
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Waymo’s safety hub now covers 271 million driverless miles: 0.01 serious-injury crashes per million miles, against 0.21 for the human benchmark in the same areas. An independent IIHS study on older data (2021-2024, about 50 million miles) found 81% fewer injury crashes, though Austin came out slightly worse than human drivers. Semafor now reports Waymo wants to go from about 4,000 cars to 20,000 by the end of 2027, funded by a $5 billion loan.
The interesting part is what happens if that safety gap holds at five times the fleet. Insurers and cities would have hard numbers to price human driving as the riskier option, and the data gap becomes a policy problem: IIHS points out that mileage reporting is voluntary and only Waymo publishes its driverless miles. The jobs side moves too, since the BLS still projects 9% growth for the 456,000 US taxi, shuttle and chauffeur jobs through 2035, a forecast that assumes humans stay in the driver’s seat.
I saw 2 Waymos blocking the exit of a parking garage in Vegas. What percentage of human drivers would do that?
A Waymo drove off with my phone in Phoenix once. Fortunately the next ride picked up my phone when my friend called it and were at the same event we were.
Definitely needs to be a short period where if you forget something in it, it allows you to get back in before it drives off.
So do they compare to the general human population or to human taxi drivers, who tend to be experienced drivers?
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This really is a solution looking for a problem. You guys in the states just need to build public transport infrastructure. We should be looking to take less vehicles off the road, not more.
Ban human drivers.
Seriously, if we want safer streets we’re gonna have to ban human drivers. They’re not up to the job and we have a safer alternative.
I like how it doesn’t mention all crashes only “serious-injury accidents” which is completely subjective
Or, just design cities so that cars are unnecessary altogether
Insurers are going to look at this data and instantly invent a Human Volatility Surcharge before the end of the week.
We’re about to see real unemployment once again. The number has lost meaning when you can pick up your phone and become a gig worker that same day.
Oppose it all you want. Driverless cars are the future.
Don’t they all drive super slowly? It’s hard to have serious accidents with no speed. This is a shit metric and they should just build trains.
$5 billion for 16000 cars implies each vehicle costs $312.5 thousand dollars