Cruise said its cars were involved in 92% fewer collisions as the primary contributor and 54% fewer collisions overall when benchmarked against human drivers in a comparable driving environment. Doing so helps the Waymo Driver predict the likely next maneuvers of the vehicles around it and respond accordingly.”īoth Cruise and Waymo touted their own safety records. “Our driver can also detect the speed of other vehicles on the road. “Unlike humans, the Waymo Driver is designed to follow applicable speed limits,” reads the blog. The company cited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data that showed in 2020, speeding accounted for one-third of all traffic fatalities and 13% of injuries in the U.S. Many cars went 25 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. The Alphabet-owned company used its robotaxis to analyze the aggregate speeds of cars in San Francisco and Phoenix over a 10-day period, and found that vehicles speed 47% of the time. Waymo published a blog post with a similar sentiment Tuesday. Cruise driverless cars are designed to save lives.” “People cause millions of accidents every year in the US. “You might be a good driver, but many of us aren’t,” reads the ad. The agency didn’t say why exactly, only stating that the matters required “further review.”Īs part of a push ahead of the vote next month, Cruise on Thursday took out full-page ads in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee with the headline: “Humans are terrible drivers.” The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) had scheduled a hearing to approve permit expansions Thursday but pushed the hearing date to August 10. The offensive tactics that paint human drivers as the real problem are an attempt to sway public opinion in favor of autonomous vehicle services, even as residents, safe streets advocates and city agencies like the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) complain that malfunctioning robotaxis add to the city’s congestion problem and have impeded traffic, public transit and emergency responders.īoth companies currently run limited robotaxi services in the city. The moves - full-page ads in major newspapers from Cruise and a blog post from Waymo - come as California regulators delay for a second time granting expanded permits that would give both companies authority to charge for fully driverless robotaxi rides with no human behind the wheel across San Francisco 24/7. Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo have separately pushed a narrative this week that humans are bad drivers and that their technologies are crucial to making roads safer.
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