Study Backs Getting Driverless Cars On The Road, As Waymo Ditches Backup Drivers
A research report says more lives will be saved by putting autonomous cars on the road sooner rather than later, even if they're not perfect. Waymo deployed some in Arizona — without backup drivers.
A new study is bolstering the case for putting more autonomous vehicles on the road sooner rather than later — at the same time that self-driving cars are hitting a milestone in parts of the Phoenix metropolitan area.
A research report released this week argues that deploying driverless cars commercially as soon as they become at least a little safer than human drivers, could end up saving hundreds of thousands of lives — as compared to waiting for the technology to be close to perfect.
Meanwhile, on the roads in Arizona, the first public tests of self-driving cars without backup drivers have begun.
