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Waymo safety analysis finds 95% fewer crashes resulting in serious injuries

Waymo said a safety analysis found that its Waymo Driver self-driving vehicles had 95% fewer crashes resulting in serious or more severe injuries than human drivers.

What happened

According to a safety analysis released by Waymo, the company compared the rate of crashes resulting in serious or more severe injuries with that of human drivers, using data from more than 270 million miles driven fully autonomously across the United States through the end of June 2026. Human drivers had 0.213 such crashes per million miles, compared with 0.011 for Waymo Driver.

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Translated from the Japanese original: /news/waymo-anzensei-bunseki-de-juushou-jiko-95-genshou-to-kouhyou-f43997. The Japanese version is authoritative if they differ.