Surprise: Automated driving biz finds automated driving safer than letting you get behind the wheel

Waymo recreated 72 fatal crashes and it turns out its simulated AI driver isn't a careless, distracted jerk

Keen to prove that automated cars are safer than human-driven vehicles, Waymo, the robotaxi biz spun out of Google in 2016, set out to simulate 72 fatal crashes that occurred from 2008 through 2017 in the vicinity of Chandler, Arizona....