A new study by Swiss Re found that Waymo's autonomous vehicles resulted in 88% fewer property damage claims and 92% fewer bodily injury claims compared to human-driven vehicles. The analysis, which covered 25.3 million miles driven by Waymo cars, compared them to human driver baselines based on over 500,000 claims and 200 billion driving miles. Even when compared to newer vehicles with advanced safety tech, Waymo still outperformed with an 86% reduction in property damage claims and a 90% reduction in bodily damage claims. However, the study's authors acknowledge limitations, including the fact that Waymo primarily operates in cities and has a relatively short real-world testing period.
, a non-paid partnership between Waymo itself and reinsurer Swiss Re , indicated Waymo ’s cars result in fewer insurance claims than those operated by people.
Swiss Re analyzed liability claims from collisions covering 25.3 million miles driven by Waymo’s autonomous cars. The study also compared Waymo’s liability claims to human driver baselines based on data from over 500,000 claims and over 200 billion driving miles. The results found that Waymo Driver “demonstrated better safety performance when compared to human-driver vehicles.”.
The study found cars operated by Alphabet’s Waymo Driver resulted in 88 percent fewer property damage claims and 92 percent fewer bodily injury claims.Swiss Re also invented a new metric to compare Waymo Driver against only newer vehicles with advanced safety tech, like driver assistance, automated emergency braking and blind spot warning systems, instead of against the whole corpus of those 200 billion driving miles.
Of course, there are two glaring issues. First is that Waymo currently only operates in cities, which, yes, account for the bulk of crashes in the US, but rural areas account for a muchof crashes proportional to their population. Second: Waymo simply hasn't been around that long. It's very hard to get an accurate measure of the system when its real-world testing period has been so relatively short.
The numbers may look good for Waymo Driver in studies but they aren’t perfect by any stretch. Waymo issued its second recall over the summer when one of its robotaxis hit
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