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Waymo has enough cars and enough miles (7+ million) they actually crash fairly frequently, while still being considered on par or safer than people. By compar
by Retric 2y ago
Waymo has enough cars and enough miles (7+ million) they actually crash fairly frequently, while still being considered on par or safer than people.
By comparison NYC has ~13,000 taxi and ~10 accidents involving them per day.
Edit: https://assets.ctfassets.net/e6t5diu0txbw/54ngcIlGK4EZnUapYvAjyf/7a5b30a670350cc1d85c9d07ca282b0c/Comparison_of_Waymo_Rider_Only_Crash_Data_to_Human_Benchmarks_at_7_1_Million_Miles_arxiv.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/e6t5diu0txbw/54ngcIlGK4EZnUapYv...
- WaxProlix 2y agoThis is the kind of claim that would benefit from backing data.
- Retric 2y agohttps://assets.ctfassets.net/e6t5diu0txbw/54ngcIlGK4EZnUapYvAjyf/7a5b30a670350cc1d85c9d07ca282b0c/Comparison_of_Waymo_Rider_Only_Crash_Data_to_Human_Benchmarks_at_7_1_Million_Miles_arxiv.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/e6t5diu0txbw/54ngcIlGK4EZnUapYv... There’s a few things to quibble about in the above, but it does have data you can look at.
- spiderxxxx 2y agoYou are comparing miles to number of taxis, and some vague frequency of accidents vs an inexact statistic. I appreciate you trying, but I believe accident statistics are normally based on "per million vehicle miles traveled". If you're trying to make a statistic, you should probably use that basis.
- Retric 2y agoWaymo doesn’t operate in NYC and uses a different metric for number of accidents so it’s not that simple to directly compare, which is why I just gave accidents per day to give a sense of scale. If you think it’s meaningful, NYC taxi average 70k miles per year and Waymo’s accidents are included in the link.