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Are self-driving cars safe?

3 of the 6 people who answered it say they’re safer than people and 3 say they’re not ready.

From the long interviews we cut, December 2024 to November 2026. Each person counts once, by their newest answer. 6 moments, updated Nov 9, 2026.

Sundar Pichai said on Sources (Oct 21, 2026) that self-driving cars have 95% fewer serious crashes than regular driving. Kyle Vogt said on No Priors (Feb 20, 2025) that a driverless taxi needs superhuman safety performance before it can be offered as a product.

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Of the 6 people who answered "Are self-driving cars safe?" in the long interviews Real Alpha cut from December 2024 to November 2026, 3 say they’re safer than people and 3 say they’re not ready (Real Alpha, Nov 9, 2026, https://realalpha.app/q/are-self-driving-cars-safe/).

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Who said it, which side, the show, the date and the link to the moment, for every big question. Free to reuse with credit (CC BY 4.0).

Safer than people3 moments

  1. Sources · · 3 min Pro pick

    Waymo is scaling through partnerships and broader deployments

    “already driving with 95% fewer serious crashes compared to, you know, regular driving.”
    Sundar PichaiCEO, Google and Alphabet49:24

  2. All-In · · 5 min

    AI5 targets a 40x gain on an AI4 bottleneck

    “By some metrics, the improvement in AI5 will be 40 times better than AI4.”
    Elon MuskCEO, SpaceX & Tesla; founder, xAI13:23

  3. Modern Wisdom · · 5 min

    Self-driving cars can be safer before they are perfect

    “we have gotten used to a very large amount of carnage in return for the convenience of modern transportation and logistics.”
    Marc AndreessenCo-founder, Andreessen Horowitz1:03:40

Not yet3 moments

  1. MTS · · 3 min

    Wayve expects a shift toward eyes-off driving by 2028

    “I think there's going to be a big shift in 2027 into 2028”
    Brandon BassoHead of Simulation & Validation, Wayve16:53

  2. The Diary Of A CEO · · 7 min

    AI has not produced broad white-collar job losses

    “work-wise, are art directors. It's people, art directors, transcribers, translators, who have bosses that don't care about the output.”
    Ed ZitronFounder & CEO, EZPR1:06:31

  3. No Priors · · 3 min

    Home robots can launch with narrower functionality than robotaxis

    “for a driverless robo-taxi, you basically have no product until it achieves superhuman safety performance.”
    Kyle VogtCEO, The Bot Company15:36

Each moment is a few minutes of a long interview, cut by Real Alpha and filed under how it answers by a model that read its claim and quote. Each person counts once, on the side of their newest answer, so a side can have more moments than people. Open a moment for its full transcript. Last moment added Nov 9, 2026.