TECH - Alphabet Unit Waymo Claims Lower Crash Rate Despite Regulator Probes Into Risky Driving Behavior: 'This Is Why We Do It' | Benzinga
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Waymo released a safety report on Tuesday pegging its autonomous driving technology as better than a human driver, resulting in fewer crashes that cause injuries or even police-reported crashes in San Francisco and Phoenix.
What Happened: Had a human driver covered the same 14.8 million miles that Waymo covered autonomously through the end of March, the individual would have caused more police-reported crashes and crashes involving an injury, the company said.
Waymo’s self-driving technology is 3.5 times better at avoiding crashes that cause injuries and two times better at avoiding police-reported crashes than human drivers, as per the company. In San Francisco alone, Waymo’s driving resulted in 17 fewer injuries and 12 fewer police-reported crashes, it added.
“This is why we do it, and what keeps us going. Safety and transparency go hand in hand at Waymo, and this latest data shows the real impact our technology is having in the ...