General Discussion

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024104100

While driving without a human behind the steering wheel in RO mode for 3,868,506 miles, the Waymo Driver reduced bodily injury claims frequency by 100 %, or zero claims, (0.00 vs 1.11 claims per million miles). The difference is statistically significant, as indicated by the non-overlapping confidence intervals (ROBI 95 % CI [0.000, 0.95], Baseline 95 % CI [1.10, 1.12]). This provides evidence of the ADS' ability to reduce bodily injuries on public roads. Property damage claims frequency was significantly reduced by 76 % (0.78 vs 3.26 claims per million miles), as indicated by non-overlapping 95 % CIs (ROPD 95 % CI [0.16, 2.27], Baseline 95 % CI [3.24, 3.27]). These results are displayed in Fig. 2C.

You can point to incidents like this, much like you can point to a plane crash making the news, but they make the news because of relative infrequency. Are there issues? Sure. But this afternoon driving about 9 miles I saw at least 5 drivers do something illegal and incompetent that made them a danger to everyone around them.