Move Fast and Break Nothing

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Every trip in a self-driving Waymo has the same dangerous moment. But at the very end, you, a flawed human being, will have to place your hand on the door handle, look both ways, and push the door open. From mid-February to mid-August of this year, Waymo's driverless cars were involved in three collisions that came down to roughly identical circumstances: A passenger flung their door open and hit somebody passing by on a bike or scooter. That's according to an independent analysis of crash reports the company has disclosed to the government, which found that most of the 45 serious accidents involving Waymos were the fault of other motorists or seemingly an act of God.