Results: Overall, 22% of L4 crash involvements were deemed police-reportable or maybe police-reportable, and two thirds of these occurred in driverless operation. L4 vehicles were unlikely to be the striking vehicle or primary contributor to crashes. Waymo L4 vehicles in driverless operation had police-reportable crash involvement rates 68% lower than human drivers in the same areas and years. Waymo’s rate of rear-ending another vehicle was 91% lower; its vehicles’ rate of being rear-ended was 40% lower. These results apply only to the L4 vehicles in driverless operation that were studied.

- Rise of the machines: crash experiences of highly automated vehicles and human drivers

I cannot support any political or social organization opposed to the rollout of self-driving vehicles, on these grounds alone.

When I arrived at D.C.’s city hall in July for a public hearing on the proposed bill to authorize Waymo, I passed dozens of protesters from various labor groups chanting and holding signs with slogans such as WAYMO? HELL NO and AI DOESN’T VOTE. We Do. Inside, about a dozen labor leaders and rideshare drivers demanded that city officials vote against the bill.

Stuff like this really radicalizes me against Democrats and labor unions! Rather make a quick buck and sacrifice thousands of lives a year, huh? These people make me sick.

- Democrats Are Failing the Waymo Test by Rogé Karma