Waymo vehicle crashes 1 week after federal investigation launched into accidents
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By comparison NYC has ~13,000 taxi and ~10 accidents involving them per day.
Edit: https://assets.ctfassets.net/e6t5diu0txbw/54ngcIlGK4EZnUapYv...
There’s a few things to quibble about in the above, but it does have data you can look at.
If you think it’s meaningful, NYC taxi average 70k miles per year and Waymo’s accidents are included in the link.
And I am not at all convinced that Waymo is safer than a responsible driver who obeys the speed limit, so forcing driverless cars could very well be more dangerous than limiting the speed of human drivers. The worst case scenario is responsible drivers using self-driving because the data told then it was safer (even if it isn't), while irresponsible drivers control their vehicle manually so they can still speed and run red lights.
The other problem, more minor, is that Waymos are relatively new vehicles in good condition, but the human crash rates include a number of mechanical failures that driverless cars haven't experienced yet. My most cognitively demanding driving experience was a tire blowout on the interstate... kind of hard to accumulate 60,000 instances of training data for the AI to learn from.
I think the value prop is that AI-driver will not get drunk or tired, not that SOTA AI vs Alert/Good human driver is approximately the same. A good human driver can be distracted/tired/influenced by a substance/emotional, all things that drop their performance.
An AI cannot.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/waymo-car-c...
A fundamental part of the lifecycle of these memes are the consumers. Flagged for being crap.