Waymo's robotaxis had 95% fewer serious crashes than humans. Now it plans a fleet of 20,000 cars
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 sligh…
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- 2026-10-20 13:09 · r/singularity
Waymo's robotaxis had 95% fewer serious crashes than humans. Now it plans a fleet of 20,000 cars