The data coming out from an independent study of Waymo autonomous vehicles is, frankly, amazing. Swiss Re, one of the largest global insurance firms based out of Zürich, reports that 25.3 million fully autonomous miles drive by Waymo vehicles resulted in a 92% reduction in car crash injuries.
In plain English, Waymo self-driving tech is 12.5x safer than human drivers.
Let’s dig into what that means!
For every one that drives into a wall painted by Wile E. Coyote, there’s a thousand cases where the robot had perfect 360-degree vision and millisecond reflexes. We’ve been talking about this for a decade and the tech only gets better.