Waymo pitted its autonomous vehicles against a virtual superhuman driver to see which was safer

Waymo’s latest effort to prove that autonomous vehicles are safer than silly, accident-prone humans involves creating a virtual representation of a hyper-attentive driver and then pitting this fake person against its own AVs in a series of simulated tests to see which is better at crash avoidance.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23377219/waymo-av-safety-study-response-time-crash-avoidance