From the road — September 24, 2026

Across Waymo’s 270 million autonomous miles, the data is unequivocal: at least 841 people* avoided injuries they otherwise would have sustained in a traffic crash. Over 300 human lifetimes of driving, the Waymo Driver continues to meaningfully improve road safety.

Our latest analysis of the Waymo Driver’s safety performance now covers over 270 million miles of fully autonomous operations through the end of June 2026 — the distance equivalent of driving the length of Route 66 over 110,000 times. This safety data includes analysis of five of our major metropolitan service areas: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco.

Across these cities, the Waymo Driver continues to outperform human benchmarks. Regardless of fault, it was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to human drivers. When it comes to more severe collisions, the impact is even more pronounced: the Waymo Driver was involved in 95% fewer (20x fewer) serious injury or worse crashes than humans.

The safety impact extends directly to where road users are most exposed. Whether it's riding in a bike lane alongside the vehicle, stepping into a crosswalk at dusk, or navigating dense traffic on a motorcycle, the Waymo Driver significantly reduces risk — cutting injury-causing crashes involving pedestrians by 93%, cyclists by 86%, and motorcyclists by 82%.

As our operations scale, so does the positive safety impact the Waymo Driver has on roads, our riders, the communities we serve, and the healthcare ecosystems that serve these communities.

View the full data and methodology here. The Waymo Driver also undergoes a formal safety review before deployment on public roads. You can see the acceptance criteria used to evaluate its readiness in this paper.

*Based on 841 estimated injury-causing crashes prevented, assuming a conservative baseline of at least one injured person per crash