Talk:Waymo/Archives/2019

California Crash reports and AV safety
Waymo is required to report Crashes in CA. These are much more frequent than public reports or death and injury reports and so offer a better insight into the effectiveness of the self driving software. However, they obviously are biased in many ways. For instance, it seems clear that shadow drivers attempt to take control and report that they were in control after each crash. So, when the AV is stopped at a light or stop sign and then involved in a crash (e.g. rear ended) the report says the AV was under manual control. Still, given a reasonable assumption that all AV companies are doing the same thing, we can get an estimate of improvement over time by looking at how many AVs a company has, how many miles they drove, and how many crashes they report. Waymo seems the clear leader in 2018, with a rate that is only slightly higher than novice drivers (1,000 to 2,000 crashes per 100 million miles). Someone should analyze this and report about it in this article. Imersion (talk) 14:12, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Who is saying that the shadow driver is falsely reporting the circumstances? What is your source? MartinezMD (talk) 20:15, 10 June 2019 (UTC)