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Waymo has enough cars and enough miles (7+ million) they actually crash fairly frequently, while still being considered on par or safer than people.

By comparison NYC has ~13,000 taxi and ~10 accidents involving them per day.

Edit: https://assets.ctfassets.net/e6t5diu0txbw/54ngcIlGK4EZnUapYv...

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This is the kind of claim that would benefit from backing data.

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.

You are comparing miles to number of taxis, and some vague frequency of accidents vs an inexact statistic. I appreciate you trying, but I believe accident statistics are normally based on "per million vehicle miles traveled". If you're trying to make a statistic, you should probably use that basis.

Waymo doesn’t operate in NYC and uses a different metric for number of accidents so it’s not that simple to directly compare, which is why I just gave accidents per day to give a sense of scale.

If you think it’s meaningful, NYC taxi average 70k miles per year and Waymo’s accidents are included in the link.

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