Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos

Waymo has reported nearly 200 crashes through June 2024 , which works out to about one crash every 100,000 miles .

Driverless Waymo taxis have been involved in fewer than one injury-causing crash for every million miles of driving.

Waymo estimates typical drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix would have caused 64 crashes over those 22 million miles .

There were two crashes where a Waymo got sideswiped by a vehicle in an adjacent lane.

Waymo 's benchmarks for human drivers are “about as good as you can do,” says Noah Goodall .

Goodall: It seems clear a non-Waymo vehicle bore primary responsibility for most, and possibly all, of these crashes.

Waymo says its vehicles get into crashes that cause injury 73 percent less often than human drivers, while the figure I use in this article is 70 percent .

I spotted a couple of apparent classification mistakes in the raw data Waymo used to generate its statistics.

When I asked Waymo about this discrepancy, the company said it found a programming error.

Waymo fixed the error quickly enough that the official version Waymo published showed 18 injury crashes.