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Can Waymo reduce America's shocking number of road deaths?

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Waymo's self-driving, electric Jaguars encountered 92 percent fewer crashes with pedestrians that resulted in injuries compared to human drivers.

Waymo is making a concerted effort to do research demonstrating the safety of the vehicles on real roads and being public about it.

Analyst says Waymo seems to be finding the most success compared to other AV efforts from Tesla and General Motors' Cruise .

The biggest contributor to crash deaths, and have been perpetual really, is speeding, impairment, like alcohol impairment, distractions is another component.

AVs can illustrate the potential and some reasons why human drivers slip in terms of behavior and the way they operate vehicles and why they get in crashes.

That alone is going to eliminate a lot of deaths.