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Waymo's driverless cars are apparently an insurance company's dream

A study between Waymo and Swiss Re shows that Waymo Driver operated cars result in fewer insurance claims.

Swiss Re analyzed liability claims from collisions covering 25.3 million miles driven by Waymo’s autonomous cars. (The study, incidentally, states that having exurban data included in the baseline metrics actually cuts against Waymo's true safety numbers.) Waymo issued its second recall over the summer when one of its robotaxis hit a street level telephone pole at 8 mph in Phoenix.

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