Lugh@futurology.today to Autonomous Vehicles@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 months agoWaymo'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.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down17
arrow-up135arrow-down1external-linkWaymo'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.comLugh@futurology.today to Autonomous Vehicles@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoA 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.
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoAgreed, “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.
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.
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.