@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (Jonathan Slotkin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles."
"Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles ... When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury. It showed a 96 percent lower rate of injury-causing crashes at intersections...deadliest I encounter in the trauma bay.&q…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShares of Tesla closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/tesla-tests-driverless-cars-in-austin…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799259/waymo-london-robotaxi-launch-2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: Chinese robotaxi companies like Baidu and WeRide are outnumbering their US rivals with more projects progressing from testing to commercialization (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-26…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.htm…
