<story><title>Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/20/waymos-autonomous-vehicles-are-driving-25000-miles-every-day/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RestlessMind</author><text>As an HNer, I find what Waymo (and other autonomous vehicle companies) are doing is simply fabulous. Technology improvement is a big impetus for human progress. Looking back over the past century, inventions like transistor, rockets, internet, satellites, nuclear power and aviation significantly improved our quality of life.&lt;p&gt;Autonomous vehicles belong to the same league. I am very happy that a non trivial amount of resources are devoted to them and it&amp;#x27;s not just a next SV fad like some ICO &amp;#x2F; Juicero &amp;#x2F; photo sharing app. Rooting for the success of this technology.</text></comment>
<story><title>Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/20/waymos-autonomous-vehicles-are-driving-25000-miles-every-day/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>Human drivers average about 1 fatality per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.  [1]  So we are still a long ways from being able to access safety in comparison to humans.
[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&amp;#x2F;Api&amp;#x2F;Public&amp;#x2F;ViewPublication&amp;#x2F;812451&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&amp;#x2F;Api&amp;#x2F;Public&amp;#x2F;ViewPublication&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>