Because of AI, there were an estimated 841 fewer injury-causing crashes across 270 million driverless miles.

Waymo's safety hub through June 2026 reports 82% fewer injury-causing crashes and 95% fewer serious-or-worse crashes than a geographically matched human benchmark, with roughly 134 of the 841 avoided injury crashes accruing in Q2 2026 alone (841 minus the 707 reported through March 2026).

Company-produced, modeled comparison against an estimated human benchmark with an adjustment for roughly 32% underreporting of human injury crashes; not a randomized comparison of identical trips.

Compared with

Waymo rider-only miles vs human-driver crash rates in the same ZIP codes and period, adjusted for underreporting

Effect

82% fewer injury crashes; 95% fewer serious-or-worse (0.67 injury crashes per million miles vs ~3.77 benchmark; 841 fewer injury crashes lifetime)

Reach

Phoenix, SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta; ~4M miles/week by mid-2026

Domain

Transport · Classic ML

Conflicts

Waymo owns the data and the benchmark methodology; IIHS has commended the transparency but not independently audited the counts.

What would move the grade

An independent (NHTSA, IIHS, academic) replication of the benchmark on the same miles would move evidence to B.

Sources

• primaryWaymo Safety Impact hub (waymo.com)
• primaryWaymo: safety data update, Sept 2026 (waymo.com)
• primaryWaymo: safety data update, June 2026 (through March 2026) (waymo.com)
• secondaryParameter: IIHS commentary on Waymo data release (parameter.io)

Editor's notes

The 841 figure is lifetime. For a strict 12-month view use the quarterly deltas: ~134 avoided injury crashes in Q2 2026 across ~51M miles.

History

• Oct 22, 2026Added.

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