Robotaxis are a pretty polarizing subject. People are still a bit distrusting of them—after all, changing out the human brain for some silicon isn't an easy concept to grasp. And with some of the more high-profile screw-ups that the public has seen, it's easy to wag a finger when one passes by.

But when it comes to actually getting into an accident, it turns out that Waymo's robotaxis are actually way less likely to cause injury than when us meatbags are actually in the drivers seat, at least according to the company's publicly shared data.

The data comes from Waymo's latest blog post where it reveals that its cars have 82% fewer incidents that result in an injury when compared to a human driver. And before you think that's just a small sample of driving, Waymo says that figure is its cumulative total as of June and represents over 270 million miles of fully autonomous driving.

For serious crashes, that number moves the needle even more in Waymo's favor.

Data shows that Waymo's cars were involved in 95% fewer collisions that caused serious injury of worse, which effectively represents a 20-fold reduction compared to humans. There were 93% fewer pedestrian incidents that resulted in injuries compared to human drivers. For cyclists and motorcyclists, the figures were 86% and 82%, respectively.

Let's put this into perspective a bit more. S. 77 IPMM. 67 IPMM. 64 IPMM.

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