Alphabet Unit Waymo Claims Lower Crash Rate Despite Regulator Probes Into Risky Driving Behavior: 'This Is Why We Do It'
Alphabet Unit Waymo Claims Lower Crash Rate Despite Regulator Probes Into Risky Driving Behavior: 'This Is Why We Do It'
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Waymo released a safety report on Tuesday pegging its autonomous driving technology as better than a human driver, resulting in fewer crashes that cause injuries or even police-reported crashes in San Francisco and Phoenix.
Alphabet Inc. (納斯達克:GOOG) (納斯達克:GOOGL) 子公司Waymo於週二發佈的安全報告稱，其無人駕駛技術比人類駕駛員更好，導致舊金山和菲尼克斯少發生更少的事故，其中包括導致人員受傷或甚至通報警情的事故。
What Happened: Had a human driver covered the same 14.8 million miles that Waymo covered autonomously through the end of March, the individual would have caused more police-reported crashes and crashes involving an injury, the company said.
如果一個人類駕駛員列車了Waymo自主完成的1480萬英里，該人會導致更多通報警情的事故和涉及傷害的事故，該公司稱。
Waymo's self-driving technology is 3.5 times better at avoiding crashes that cause injuries and two times better at avoiding police-reported crashes than human drivers, as per the company. In San Francisco alone, Waymo's driving resulted in 17 fewer injuries and 12 fewer police-reported crashes, it added.
Waymo的自動駕駛技術比人類駕駛員避免事故的能力高出3.5倍，並且比警方通報的人類駕駛員避免事故的能力高出兩倍。該公司補充稱，在僅舊金山一地，Waymo的駕駛結果導致減少了17個傷害和12個通報警情的事故。
"This is why we do it, and what keeps us going. Safety and transparency go hand in hand at Waymo, and this latest data shows the real impact our technology is having in the communities we serve," Waymo Chief Product Officer Saswat Panigrahi wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Waymo的首席產品官Saswat Panigrahi在X（以前叫Twitter）上寫道：“這就是我們這樣做以及推動我們前行的原因。在Waymo，安全和透明度始終相輔相成，而這最新的數據顯示了我們的技術在服務我們的社區方面產生的真正影響。”
This is why we do it, and what keeps us going. Safety and transparency go hand in hand at @Waymo, and this latest data shows the real impact our technology is having in the communities we serve.
— Saswat Panigrahi (@saswat101) June 18, 2024
“這就是我們這樣做以及推動我們前行的原因。在@Waymo，安全和透明度始終相輔相成，而這最新的數據顯示了我們的技術在服務我們的社區方面產生的真正影響。”
—— Saswat Panigrahi (@saswat101) 2024年6月18日
Why It Matters: Waymo believes that autonomous driving can save lives by removing reliance on human drivers who can get drunk, tired, or distracted. It currently operates robotaxis in parts of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The company also intends to expand services to Austin soon.
Waymo認爲，自動駕駛可以通過消除對可能會醉酒，疲勞或分心的人類駕駛員的依賴來挽救生命。它目前在舊金山，洛杉磯和菲尼克斯某些地區運營機器人出租車。該公司還打算很快將服務擴展到奧斯汀。
However, the U.S. auto safety regulator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) commenced a probe into Waymo vehicles in May following reports of unexpected driving behaviors.
然而，美國汽車安全監管機構國家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）於5月發起了對Waymo車輛的調查，該公司報道了意外的駕駛行爲。
The regulator expressed concern that these driving behaviors may increase the risks of crash and injury. "Although this office is unaware of injury allegations, several of the incidents involved collisions with clearly visible objects that a competent driver would be expected to avoid," the regulator wrote in a letter to Waymo dated May 23.
監管機構表達了對這些駕駛行爲可能增加風險和風險的擔憂。監管機構在5月23日致Waymo的一封信中寫道：“雖然這個辦公室不知道有傷害的指控，但其中幾起事故涉及與明顯可避免的物體發生碰撞的事故。”
Only last week, Waymo recalled about 672 of its self-driving vehicles after identifying their inability to avoid a pole or pole-like objects. The company identified the issue after one of its self-driving cars collided with a wooden utility pole in an alleyway in Phoenix, Arizona late last month. The company fixed the issue with a software update to improve its reaction to pole-like objects and "robust" mapping updates and improvements.
就在上週，Waymo召回了大約672輛自動駕駛車輛，之前經過識別，無法避免與柱子或類似柱子的物體發生碰撞。該公司在上個月晚些時候於亞利桑那州鳳凰城的小巷中的一輛自動駕駛汽車與一根木製公用事業電線杆相撞後識別了這個問題。該公司通過軟件更新和“強大”的映射更新和改進來解決了這個問題，以改善其對類似柱子的物體的反應。
Late last month, EV giant Tesla Inc. also released a vehicle safety report aimed at reaffirming the safety and lower crash rate of its driver assistance systems. Tesla is looking to achieve vehicle autonomy by improving its full self-driving (FSD) software to enable vehicles to operate without human intervention.
上個月底，電動汽車巨頭特斯拉（Tesla Inc.）也發佈了一份旨在重申其駕駛輔助系統的安全性和較低的碰撞率的車輛安全報告。特斯拉希望通過改進其全自動駕駛（FSD）軟件實現車輛自主運行。
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