Mawakana: Waymo has 73% fewer injury crashes than human drivers
Tekedra Mawakana · Tekedra Mawakana | All-In Summit 2024 · Sep 18, 2024 · at 5:20
Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo, discusses safety data from over 22 million fully autonomous miles driven in market cities like San Francisco and Phoenix.
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“What we've been able to determine as of June of this year with over twenty-two million, what we refer to as RO miles, those are miles that are fully autonomous. We've been able to have 83% fewer airbag deployments, which of course is important because those are high impact. And 74, or 73% fewer injury-causing crashes.”
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