News Summary

• In fact, many safe streets advocates argue that cities should be advancing public transit and micromobility, not Big Tech solutions.While Cruise and Waymo vehicles haven’t been involved in any fatal human collisions yet, the technologies are far from perfect.
• Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo have separately pushed a narrative this week that humans are bad drivers and that their technologies are crucial to making roads safer.
• The company operates a fully autonomous service throughout the city as well, but that one is still free.
• The Alphabet-owned company used its robotaxis to analyze the aggregate speeds of cars in San Francisco and Phoenix over a 10-day period, and found that vehicles speed 47% of the time.
• Waymo also provides a free service with a safety driver present in parts of Los Angeles and in and around Mountain View.
• Doing so helps the Waymo Driver predict the likely next maneuvers of the vehicles around it and respond accordingly.”Both Cruise and Waymo touted their own safety records.