Waymo crash map shows hundreds of driverless car collisions across LA
Waymo’s driverless cars have been involved in 440 reported crashes across Los Angeles County, even as the company’s reported collision rate plunged 41% — a drop largely driven by a federal rule change that let it stop reporting certain minor wrecks.The Google-owned robotaxi service recorded 9.4 crashes per million miles driven between October 2024 and June 2025.In the following year, that figure fell to 5.5, according to data published by Waymo and analyzed by The Basin.But the decline came as federal regulators changed which fender-benders autonomous vehicle companies must report, making the figures harder to compare.Since June 16, 2025, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has no longer required companies to report certain crashes in which another vehicle strikes a driverless car, provided no vehicle is towed, nobody is taken to a hospital, no airbag deploys and the damage is not expected to exceed $1,000.The agency said the change was designed to filter out minor collisions, including cases in which a driverless vehicle was stationary when another car hit it.The impact on numbers was immediate.
Waymo’s minor crash rate in Los Angeles fell from 6.5 per million miles before the change to 2.1 afterward.Meanwhile, crashes requiring reports within days rose from 2.8 to 3.4 per million miles.Most of the decline involved crashes in which another vehicle struck a Waymo.
Those incidents fell from 5.2 per million miles to 1.8.The company’s records show that its vehicles were stopped or parked in 269 of the 440 reported county crashes.Other drivers rear-ended stationary Waymos 123 times and sideswiped them 71 times.Since the rule change, Waymo was the only vehicle towed and nobody was hurt in 109 of the 172 incidents reported within days, compared with 20 of 41 before the change.Waymo classified 62 incidents as head-on crashes, but its descriptions indicate that its vehicle was stationary in 60 of those cases.The incidents are concentrated in Mid-...