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Waymo's driverless cars are apparently an insurance company's dream - A study showed an 88 percent reduction in property damage claims compared to human drivers. (www.engadget.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A link to the study:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.01206

A red flag for me is that this is based on third party insurance liability claims. Waymo likely has paid out smaller claims themselves, reducing their own numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed, "less claims" doesn't necessarily mean more secure.

Not that I have any doubts that self-driving cars will be much, much safer than human drivers, I'm just curious if we're there yet.