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Safety is one of Waymo’s big selling points. “The most recent data shows that Waymo's vehicles are involved in 72% fewer injury-causing crashes compared to human drivers,” Waymo public ...
Waymo also logged more autonomous miles than other companies. Their 2017 rate of 0.18 disengagements per 1,000 mi (1,600 km) was an improvement over the 0.2 disengagements per 1,000 mi (1,600 km) in 2016, and 0.8 in 2015. In March 2017, Uber reported an average of 0.67 mi (1.08 km) per disengagement.
Waymo operates 48 Class 8 autonomous trucks with safety drivers. [159] In 2023 Waymo issued a joint application along with Aurora Innovation to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a five-year exemption from rules that require drivers to place reflective triangles or a flare around a stopped tractor-trailer truck, to avoid ...
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway ...
Residents near a San Francisco parking lot faced mysterious nightly noises from Waymo robotaxis. The company just announced what caused the problem: a new feature to avoid low-speed crashes.
Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer. [1] In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444 Waymo vehicles follows 22 reports of 22 incidents including 17 collisions. Waymo ...
“The safety case alone is sufficient because I don't think we should be accepting something that kills 40,000 people a year in a developed market,” said Panigrahi, pointing to the number of ...