New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
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Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#2That's great news. I wonder how much insurance rates will go down when autonomous vehicles get popular. Seems like the liability portion could go way down.
Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#3Waymo says Waymo is safe. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/woman-ge...
Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#4That's great news. I wonder how much insurance rates will go down when autonomous vehicles get popular. Seems like the liability portion could go way down.
It's a 3x effect for insurance agencies: 1) Google/Waymo doesn't buy insurance for their vehicles 2) Waymo vehicles are much less likely to cause accidents 3) Waymo vehicles actively avoid being hit and calm traffic overall
Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#5Waymo says Waymo is safe. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/woman-ge...
Seems like it would more informative to link to an issue with Waymo instead of Cruise.
Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#6Waymo says Waymo is safe. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/woman-ge...
Tens of thousands of Americas are killed every year in car crashes. The existence of a case or some cases where a self-driving car caused injury has zero value. What matters is the rate of cases per mile driven.
Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#7That's great news. I wonder how much insurance rates will go down when autonomous vehicles get popular. Seems like the liability portion could go way down.
The problem is that Waymos can't replace cars (or even Ubers!) since they depend on human oversight and problem-solving. Even at a 20:1 ratio it is not feasible for autonomous vehicles to employ 10m people to account for every American on the road.
Re: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
#8That's great news. I wonder how much insurance rates will go down when autonomous vehicles get popular. Seems like the liability portion could go way down.
The problem is that Waymos can't replace cars (or even Ubers!) since they depend on human oversight and problem-solving. Even at a 20:1 ratio it is not feasible for autonomous vehicles to employ 10m people to account for every American on the road.
This does not sound scalable.
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#9Was genuinely impressed when I took my first Waymo, not only for comfort, but the small microdecisions it made as a driver. As a person whose lost a parent to a sleepy driver, and a victim to 2 texting drivers, I welcome AI driving revolution.
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#10This will surely get some skepticism as it's a Waymo study, but it's nice to see a real‐world dataset this large at 56M miles. An 85 % drop in serious‐injury crashes and 96 % fewer intersection collisions is a strong signal that Level 4 ADS can meaningfully improve safety in ride-hail settings. Still curious about how much of that comes from operational design versus the core autonomy, but it’s a big leap beyond “novelty demo.”
Really excited for autonomy to become more and more common place. People drive more and more like distracted lunatics these days it seems