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Waymo Driver

Through March 2026, Waymo has driven 220.6M rider-only miles without a human driver
tech
waymo-driver
passes the definition as
perception, prediction and planning networks fit to driving and sensor data
from
2024-01
region
US
domain
safety
side
benefit
people
707 injury-causing crashes avoided versus a human-driver benchmark (2026-03)
effect
82 percent (2026-03) — 82% fewer injury-causing and 94% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes than human drivers over the same miles in the same places
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:Waymo
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
Through March 2026 Waymo had driven 220.6 million rider-only miles and reports 707 fewer injury-causing crashes, 305 fewer airbag-deployment crashes, 47 fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes, and 76 fewer pedestrian injury crashes than a human benchmark over the same miles.
source
https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2024-2026
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2024-2026.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)
  2. 2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — injuries avoided
  3. 2026-09-06T10:00:50-04:00 · sessionseverity — injuries avoided; the count is the 707 injury crashes avoided (a crash ≈ at least one person)
  4. 2026-09-06T10:02:14-04:00 · sessionseverity — injuries avoided; the count is the 707 injury crashes avoided in the people field (a crash ≈ at least one person); the effect field is a percentage
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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