Google ’s self-driving car company Waymo has had fewer disengagements and racked up more miles driven than any of its competitors in the autonomous car market, according to California ’s Google annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report. The biggest news to come out of this report is from Waymo, Google’s new self-driving car company, which reported a huge drop in disengagements in 2016 despite an almost equally huge increase in the number of miles driven. Google disengagement rate fell from 0.8 per thousand miles in 2015 to 0.2 per thousand miles 2015 , or from 124 in 2015 to 341 in 2016 . The report also said Waymo has clocked up a total of 635,868 miles driven in the state.
Google ’s self-driving car company Waymo has had fewer disengagements and racked up more miles driven than any of its competitors in the autonomous car market, according to California ’s Google annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report. Google disengagement rate fell from 0.8 per thousand miles in 2015 to 0.2 per thousand miles 2015 , or from 124 in 2015 to 341 in 2016 . The report also said Waymo has clocked up a total of 635,868 miles driven in the state.