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Waymo compiles ‘largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries
There have been few studies of vulnerable road users.
Waymo, the robotaxi company owned by Alphabet, recently published a new study examining hundreds of these types of crashes involving vulnerable road users, which it is calling “the largest dataset of its kind in the US.” Sifting through Nexar’s anonymized data of 500 million miles of driving, Scanlon’s team successfully reconstructed 335 crashes involving VRUs — pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists — in six American cities. “This analysis can serve as a starting point for pinpointing baseline driving risk associated with VRU collisions in dense-urban areas, which will, in turn, enable AV performance testing and evaluation,” he said.
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