> You need way more data, like orders of magnitude more. There are trillions of miles driven in the US every year.

Absurd, reductive, and non-empirical. Waymos crash and cause injury/fatality far less frequently than human drivers, full stop. You are simply out of your mind if you believe otherwise, and you should re-evaluate the data.

> Those miles often include driving in inclement weather which is something Waymo hasn't even scraped the surface of yet.

Yes. No one is claiming that Waymos are better drivers than humans in inclement weather, because they don't operate in those conditions. That does not mean Waymos are not able to outperform human drivers in the conditions in which they do operate.

> I see an environment forming where we ignore the hard problems and pray these corporate overlords solve the problem on their own. It's madness.

What's madness is your attitude that Waymos' track record does not show they are effective are reducing crashes. And again, working on policy does not prevent us from also improving technology as you seem to believe it does.