Not so good news! How safe are autonomous vehicles? However, I believe this can be fixed!
"... As the number of vehicles on the road increases, so too does the amount of data collected by regulatory agencies. These agencies track and report statistics on robotaxi collisions, “but they don’t track data on traffic flow issues, such as street blockages or interference with firetrucks.” According to the San Francisco Fire Department, there have been 39 incidents of robo taxis interfering with department duties since the start of the year. Some of those incidents include parking on top of a fire hose during an active fire scene, blocking drivers from dispatching to emergencies at two different medicinal emergencies including one mass shooting. ...
According to the California DMV there have been 28 accidents with Cruise vehicles, 24 accidents with Waymo vehicles, and 11 reported for Zoox vehicles in 2023. While these accidents are small in total magnitude, when we take into account the small number of vehicles estimated to be on the road (388 Cruise, 688 Waymo, 142 Zoox), a very different and dangerous picture emerges. 7% of Cruise Vehicles, 3% of Waymo Vehicles and 17% of Zoox vehicles are estimated to have been in one or more incidents this year. ...
Additionally, these numbers do not take into account the knock on safety effects that go uncounted by the DMV such as autonomous vehicles blocking first responders, running over dogs, engaging in hit and runs, and spontaneously combusting (to their credit, self-driving cars are not unique in their ability to spontaneously combust)."
According to the California DMV there have been 28 accidents with Cruise vehicles, 24 accidents with Waymo vehicles, and 11 reported for Zoox vehicles in 2023. While these accidents are small in total magnitude, when we take into account the small number of vehicles estimated to be on the road (388 Cruise, 688 Waymo, 142 Zoox), a very different and dangerous picture emerges. 7% of Cruise Vehicles, 3% of Waymo Vehicles and 17% of Zoox vehicles are estimated to have been in one or more incidents this year. ...
Additionally, these numbers do not take into account the knock on safety effects that go uncounted by the DMV such as autonomous vehicles blocking first responders, running over dogs, engaging in hit and runs, and spontaneously combusting (to their credit, self-driving cars are not unique in their ability to spontaneously combust)."
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