Waymo’s peer-reviewed study in Traffic Injury Prevention, PDF, 58 pages found its self-driving cars safely drove 56.7 million miles across four U.S. cities without a human safety driver. With 80-90% level reduction for different types of accidents.
56.7 million miles is a tiny fraction of the overall US miles driven, only about 0.002%. Current self-driving AI wouldn’t be as good for all road types and conditions. But it will get there, the only question is when. When it does that 80-90% reduction in accidents means 34,000 lives saved in the US, and hundreds of thousands globally - every single year.
The day is going to come where the public conversation is going to be about banning human driving, like no-seatbelts and indoor smoking before it. I’ve a suspicion the same people who said losing a few hundred thousand lives to ‘herd immunity’ will be telling us that those 34,000 dead a year are a price worth paying, so they don’t have to change anything about their lives or routines.
I know it isn’t always feasible, but I’d love more mass transit and less cars. Trains seem inherently safer, and can be more easily driven by robots.
My own research into my driving record shows the same redults
Has your own research been peer-reviewed, though?
The person in the passenger seat had white knuckles, and the girl in the back had a heart attack.
I think i passed peer review, thank you very much
banning human driving, like no-seatbelts and indoor smoking before it
Can’t wait. Humans are terrible drivers, they’ve just been the best drivers so far, and that is currently changing.
