{"id":217956,"date":"2025-07-15T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-i-am-much-less-concerned-about-tesla-robotaxi-now-waymo-disasters"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:19:17","slug":"why-i-am-much-less-concerned-about-tesla-robotaxi-now-waymo-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-i-am-much-less-concerned-about-tesla-robotaxi-now-waymo-disasters","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am MUCH LESS Concerned About Tesla Robotaxi Now (Waymo Disasters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fsRm5bdcXak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Questions to inspire discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc8 Q: How has Waymo\u2019s crash rate changed over time? A: Waymo\u2019s crash rate increased 8x from 10 to 80 per deployed vehicle between 2024 and 2025, despite only a 2-6x increase in fleet size, indicating a potential decrease in safety.<\/p>\n<p>Operational Insights.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd16 Q: What proportion of Waymo crashes involved fully autonomous vehicles? A: 521 out of 696 crashes (74.9%) involved fully autonomous vehicles without safety operators, while 167 had an onboard safety operator and 5 had a remote operator.<\/p>\n<p>Market Expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0e Q: How has Waymo\u2019s expansion affected its safety record? A: Waymo\u2019s aggressive scaling into new markets like Georgia and Austin, in response to Tesla\u2019s growth, may be contributing to the higher crash rate beyond the increase in deployment rate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-i-am-much-less-concerned-about-tesla-robotaxi-now-waymo-disasters\">Continue reading \u201cWhy I Am MUCH LESS Concerned About Tesla Robotaxi Now (Waymo Disasters)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to inspire discussion. \ud83d\udcc8 Q: How has Waymo\u2019s crash rate changed over time? A: Waymo\u2019s crash rate increased 8x from 10 to 80 per deployed vehicle between 2024 and 2025, despite only a 2-6x increase in fleet size, indicating a potential decrease in safety. Operational Insights. \ud83e\udd16 Q: What proportion of Waymo crashes involved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}