• BassetHound@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Fatalities and serious injuries sound like a far more important statistic to optimize for in terms of public safety.

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      5 hours ago

      They would need to have more of them first for the data to actually be accurate at all. From what I could find, there have been no Waymo caused fatalities - two deaths caused by other drivers though - and four serious injuries, for roughly 220 million miles driven.

      While you can then state that the rate of fatalities is 1 per 110 million miles, it’s not really useful in any way.