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Waymo released data showing its self-driving cars have 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers across 271 million miles of autonomous driving. The company also reported 95% fewer serious injury crashes and similar reductions for pedestrian, cyclist, and motorcyclist incidents.
- Waymo's crash rate is 0.67 incidents per million miles in areas where it operates, compared to 3.77 IPMM for human drivers in the same regions—a significant gap even in San Francisco where human crash rates are highest at 6.64 IPMM.
- For serious injury crashes, Waymo's advantage is even starker: 95% fewer collisions causing serious injury or worse, representing roughly a 20-fold improvement over human drivers.
- An independent IIHS study corroborates Waymo's findings, though the company's data is limited to five metropolitan areas where it currently operates, not nationwide conditions including snow and varied road infrastructure.
Waymo operates robotaxis in 15 U.S. cities and averages 500,000 weekly rides, but 80% of its fleet sits in California and Texas. The company is rapidly scaling in Texas with Chinese-built Ojai minivans, betting they'll cut costs despite import tariffs eating into savings.
- Waymo's 4,000-vehicle fleet is heavily concentrated: 80% in California and Texas, with the remaining 800 spread across Arizona, Florida, and other states
- Texas fleet surged 49% in just three weeks (reaching 1,102 vehicles as of late September), driven by new Ojai minivans that now comprise about a third of the state's robotaxis
- The Ojai minivans are Chinese-built Zeekr vehicles retrofitted with Waymo's self-driving system in Arizona, designed to reduce costs and enable scale, but tariffs are currently offsetting savings