Humans are bad at driving and in the last 5 years the behavior of the most extreme drivers way out on the tail of the bad driver bell curve has become much worse. Waymo is just acting as a recording device to quantify how bad these bozos are.
One of the more fascinating consequences of the waymo project starting (back when it was still inside Google, not a bet) was the discovery from the telemetry Waymo collected that actual collisions are underreported by a factor of probably three.
This is because nhtsa's data comes from accident reports and insurance claims, and people get into fender benders everyday that never get reported because nobody wants their rates to go up.
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Humans are bad at driving and in the last 5 years the behavior of the most extreme drivers way out on the tail of the bad driver bell curve has become much worse. Waymo is just acting as a recording device to quantify how bad these bozos are.
One of the more fascinating consequences of the waymo project starting (back when it was still inside Google, not a bet) was the discovery from the telemetry Waymo collected that actual collisions are underreported by a factor of probably three.
This is because nhtsa's data comes from accident reports and insurance claims, and people get into fender benders everyday that never get reported because nobody wants their rates to go up.