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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the road-safety desk.
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Waymo says its analysis found that sober drivers’ fatal-crash risk at night was 3.1 to 3.9 times the daytime risk. A separate analysis of US fatal crashes found that safety risks often overlap rather than arise from human behaviour alone.
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Samsung says three teams from Chennai and Coimbatore have reached the Top 20 of Solve for Tomorrow 2026. Their projects apply AI and sensors to workplace training, road hazards and support for people with Parkinson’s.
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Waymo says its autonomous vehicles were involved in 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human-driver benchmarks across more than 270 million miles in five US cities. The company estimates that 841 injury-causing crashes were prevented.
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Waymo says its fully autonomous vehicles were involved in substantially fewer serious-injury, airbag-deployment and injury-related crashes than human drivers in the same operating areas and period, based on more than 220 million miles.
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Honda says it has become the first company to receive the highest five-star rating in the FIA Road Safety Index after an assessment covering operations in 17 countries, including India.