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by mminer237 1042 days ago
Uh, I know hundreds of drivers, and I've never met someone who's done this. Who are you hanging around?
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If you want to play that game now we get to compare the number of human operator hours per wet pavement incident vs self-driving cars. A quick google search suggests the estimated number of human drivers on the road today is 1.4 billion. The rest of that calculation is left as an exercise.
If you do a true apples-to-apples comparison between Waymo and humans, the waymo cars are about five times safer.

> Accidents per million miles driven for Waymo self-driving cars are 0.59, compared to the general U.S. rate of 2.98

https://blog.gitnux.com/self-driving-cars-safety-statistics/

Pfft. How much of Waymo's million was done on unfamiliar roadways or in inclement weather? Does it snow much in Phoenix?
The top 5 results of this search are driverless car examples for me...