Are there any reliable statistics of something like accident per mile driven that compare between autonomous vehicles and human drivers?
What I found so far is this:
- Waymo and Cruise have driven about 8 million miles driverless (mostly in San Francisco) and reported about 100 crashes (mostly minor like scraping shopping cart, etc) and many that were fault of another car. (as of September 2023)
- Apparently a human drives am average 100 million miles between fatal accidents. In that case we do not have enough data, yet.
I'm not sure what to think. Is the rate of accidents a cause of concern? Or is this blown out of proportion and driverless cars are actually safer? Or (most likely) we simply do not know, yet?
What I found so far is this:
- Waymo and Cruise have driven about 8 million miles driverless (mostly in San Francisco) and reported about 100 crashes (mostly minor like scraping shopping cart, etc) and many that were fault of another car. (as of September 2023)
- Apparently a human drives am average 100 million miles between fatal accidents. In that case we do not have enough data, yet.
I'm not sure what to think. Is the rate of accidents a cause of concern? Or is this blown out of proportion and driverless cars are actually safer? Or (most likely) we simply do not know, yet?