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Everyone has a story about a self-driving car doing something weird, stopping randomly in an intersection or getting confused by construction cones. Those clips go viral because they are unusual and a little funny. What does not go viral is the actual safety data, and that data tells a very different story than the internet vibe around this technology. Waymo released a safety report covering close to 100 million fully driverless miles across four American cities through June 2025. Compared to human drivers on those exact same roads, Waymo's cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that caused serious injury or death, and 80 percent fewer crashes that caused any injury at all. At intersections specifically, which are some of the most dangerous parts of any city to drive through, the injury crash rate was 96 percent lower than human drivers (qtd. in "Car Crashes"). Those are not small margins. That is not a technology that occasionally does better than us, that is a technology operating on a completely different level of consistency. I get why people are still nervous about this. Handing control of a two ton object moving through a crowded street to software feels different from trusting software to recommend a song or grade an essay. If a human driver messes up, we understand why, they were tired, distracted, texting, drunk. When a machine messes up it feels less explainable and somehow scarier, even if it happens far less often. But that emotional reaction is not actually about safety, it is about control, and those are two different things. The uncomfortable conclusion is that most car crashes are not caused by bad luck, they are caused by human error, and human error does not go away no matter how many safety ads car companies run. If a technology is already measurably reducing the number of people who get seriously hurt or killed on the road, resisting it because it feels unfamiliar is not a neutral choice. It has a cost, and that cost is paid by the people who get into crashes that could have been prevented. Works Cited "Car Crashes Are a Public Health Crisis. Autonomous Cars Are the Cure." CleanTechnica, 3 Dec. 2025, cleantechnica.com/2025/12/03/car-crashes-are-a-public-health-crisis-autonomous-cars-are-the-cure/.
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