Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos

Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos

We took a close look at the 23 most serious Waymo crashes.

Human Drivers Keep Rear-Ending Waymos

Waymo's driverless cars have a much lower crash rate than human drivers, with fewer than one injury-causing crash per million miles driven, compared to an estimated 64 crashes by human drivers over the same distance. As Ars Technica's Timothy B. Lee notes, a significant portion of Waymo's most severe crashes involved human drivers rear-ending the Waymo vehicles. From the report: Twenty injuries might sound like a lot, but Waymo's driverless cars…