An analysis by Waymo, Google’s robotaxi subsidiary that operates in various US cities, shows that self-driving cars cause far fewer accidents and injuries than vehicles driven by “people”.

This is evidenced by data published by Waymo a 57% reduction in accidents reported to the police and an 85% reduction in accidents resulting in personal injury.

How did Google give us these numbers?

This data is based on more than 11 million miles driven by the company’s autonomous vehicles in the San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles areas. Compared to accidents caused by human drivers in the same areas, autonomous vehicles perform better.

San Francisco stands out as the most “dangerous” city, with a human-caused accident rate of 5.55 for every million miles (roughly 1.6 million kilometers). According to the company, autonomous vehicles are 10 times less likely to be injured in a crash compared to human drivers.

Waymo also notes that “human” accidents may be an undercount, especially small collisions that go unreported to police. On the other hand, in the case of autonomous vehicles, even minor incidents are detected automatically.

Funny time

Fun fact: Waymo released this report a day after another LendingTree report claimed that Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate, apparently contradicting data provided by the company itself, which claims that Autopilot is much safer than a human.

As a reminder, Tesla, which previously published Autopilot safety data on a quarterly basis, stopped doing so about a year ago.

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