On: Waymo's collision avoidance testing

[rootusrootus]

> in the US, at least) car safety ratings don't take those into consideration

Which ratings? The NHTSA does include non-occupant fatalities in their statistics. E.g. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2020-traffic-crash-data...

[cipheredStones → rootusrootus]

NHTSA safety ratings (https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings) only count people in the car. It looks like they proposed a change to that this spring (https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/five-star-safety-rating...), but I don't think they've implemented it yet. From that press release:

> For the first time ever, [the proposed rating program] includes technology recommendations not only for drivers and passengers but for road users outside the vehicle, like pedestrians.

News story on this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22960262/nhtsa-ncap-five-s...