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The authors are from: a Swiss Reinsurance Company, Ltd, Switzerland b Zardini Lab (research affiliate), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA c Autonomo
by zurfer 2y ago
The authors are from:
a Swiss Reinsurance Company, Ltd, Switzerland
b Zardini Lab (research affiliate), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
c Autonomous Systems Laboratory (research affiliate), Stanford University, USA
d Waymo LLC, USA
e Casualty Actuarial Society, USA
- suddenlybananas 2y agoSo you can't really trust it due to the obvious conflict of interest.
- hnaccount_rng 2y agoI mean.. I get that for the Waymo guys. But the SwissRE ones? Seriously? Who _should_ do that evaluation? You will necessarily have Waymo co-authors. They have to provide the data. They are the only ones who have that..
- ddalex 2y agoSwiss Re is the actual thing when it comes to actuarial tables and statistics.
- richardw 2y agoAnd would be very motivated to know the correct numbers in this case.
- passwordoops 2y agoSo not independent. And published as a white paper on Waymo's website. And only addresses the collaboration between Waymo and the insurance company, no mention of who funded the academics. Pretty sure if you dig deep enough, Swiss Re is somehow a Waymo investor. I'd trust this more if Waymo had a direct pipeline to an anonymized public repository of their complete data set for independent analysis