After a parking lot crash in Chandler, Arizona, a woman walked toward a Waymo. She had her license and registration ready, but there was no driver to take them. She left.
That 2022 crash appears in a new Arizona’s Family investigation into drivers who hit the company’s cars and leave. The station published its findings November 10. They cover crashes across metro Phoenix over more than four years.
Per mile driven, Waymos were in police-reported hit-and-runs at 2.4 times the rate of other Maricopa County drivers. Waymo questions whether more drivers flee after hitting its cars or whether it reports more of those crashes to police…