Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in two crashes and 18 ‘minor contact events’ over 1 million miles
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Image: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Waymo announced recently that its fully driverless vehicles in California and Arizona have traveled 1 million miles as of January 2023. To recognize this milestone, the Alphabet-owned company pulled back the curtain on some interesting statistics, including the number of crashes and vehicle collisions that involved its robot cars.
Waymo operates a fleet of driverless cars in Phoenix, San Francisco, and the Bay Area. Some of those trips include paying customers. The company also recently started testing its driverless vehicles in Los Angeles.
Over that 1 million miles, Waymo's vehicles were involved in only two crashes that met the criteria for inclusion in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's database for car crashes,...