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Waymo Driver (rider-only automated driving)

an 80% reduction or a human crash rate that is 5 times higher than the ADS rate
tech
waymo-driver
passes the definition as
perception, prediction and planning networks fit to logged driving data
from
2023-10
region
US
domain
safety
side
benefit
people
7,140,000 rider-only vehicle-miles driven (2023-10)
effect
80 percent (2023-10) — any-injury-reported crashed-vehicle rate 80% below the human benchmark for the same roads
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:Waymo
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
Waymo's study of NHTSA Standing General Order data over 7.14 million rider-only miles through end-October 2023 in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles: 0.6 any-injury-reported crashed vehicles per million miles versus 2.80 for the human benchmark, an 80% reduction. Operator-authored; peer-reviewed in Traffic Injury Prevention 2024.
source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12675
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2020-2023
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2020-2023.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=utf-8)
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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