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No Way-mo: Opposition to NYC's robot car pilot grows
Regulators earlier this month permitted the company Waymo to test eight self-driving cars on city streets. The pilot program has some safety advocates up in arms.
The company already operates robot taxis in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin, where riders can order driverless cabs with their smartphones. The company reports that over the more than 70 million miles its fleet has traveled, its cars have been involved in 88% fewer crashes with serious injuries than average human drivers over the same distance. Investigators said the self-driving car wasn’t at fault, and blamed the crash on a human driver traveling at high speeds who collided with multiple vehicles waiting at a traffic light, killing one person and their dog.
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