{"id":1235501,"date":"2025-02-27T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235501"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:18:32","slug":"what-we-know-about-waymos-2025-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235501","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Waymo\u2019s 2025 expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Waymo, Alphabet&#8217;s autonomous driving subsidiary, has been rapidly expanding its self-driving robotaxi across various US cities, introducing both testing phases and public ride-hailing operations. Despite these expansion plans, many people remain hesitant to embrace autonomous technology. A Pew Research Center study from 2022 found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2022\/03\/17\/americans-cautious-about-the-deployment-of-driverless-cars\/\">45 percent of Americans<\/a> would not feel comfortable sharing the road with driverless vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this skepticism comes from the coverage of autonomous driving incidents in the media. Crashes are rare, so when they <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2024\/01\/cruise-failed-to-disclose-disturbing-details-of-self-driving-car-crash\/\">do happen<\/a>, they make headlines and fuel the idea that these cars are untrustworthy. The hype around a few high-profile crashes can easily drown out the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>The data tells a different story, though. In collaboration with Swiss insurance company Swiss Re, Waymo <a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-swiss-re-study-waymo\">conducted a study<\/a> analyzing 25.3 million miles driven by its autonomous vehicles. The findings revealed an 88 percent reduction in property damage claims and a 92 percent reduction in bodily injury claims compared to human-driven vehicles for the same distance traveled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/what-we-know-about-waymos-2025-expansion-plans\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/what-we-know-about-waymos-2025-expansion-plans\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo, Alphabet&#8217;s autonomous driving subsidiary, has been rapidly expanding its self-driving robotaxi across various US cities, introducing both testing phases and public ride-hailing operations. Despite these expansion plans, many people remain hesitant to embrace autonomous technology. A Pew Research Center &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}