Protecting Vulnerable Road Users: New Insights from Waymo’s Safety Research

Nov 10 2024
Every day, millions of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists share the road with larger vehicles. Whether walking through crosswalks, biking in city streets, or riding motorcycles at a high speed on highways, these vulnerable road users (VRUs) face unique safety risks as they lack the protection that vehicles provide. In our latest research with Nexar, we reconstructed hundreds of crashes involving VRUs — the largest dataset of its kind in the U.S. — to better understand these risks and help inform our own driving as we serve more riders.

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