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A self-driving Waymo robotaxi apparently hit a bicyclist at about 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at 17th and Mississippi streets, which may put a dent in Waymo’s hopes to be considered the safer of the two big self-driving car companies.
While the self-driving car company Cruise has been mired in a public relations nightmare over repeated safety failures, their main rival, Google-owned Waymo, has been touting their supposedly superior safety record. But Waymo’s track record is not exactly spotless either. One of their self-driving cars drove into a construction site last January, others have gotten mobius-looped into dead ends around town, and a Waymo car did collide with a pedestrian in 2021 (though the company said a human was driving at the time).