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The United States has made great progress in preventing child fatalities from unintentional injuries. In fact, the U.S. childhood death rate from unintentional injury – or accidents that are preventable, like drowning or failure to use child safety restraints in vehicles– has been reduced by 61% since 1988.

In 2018, we shared our plans to work with Valley Metro, the Phoenix Metro area’s regional public transportation authority, to explore mobility solutions in a first-of-its-kind study that would use autonomous driving technology to complement the city’s existing transit network.

In the season six debut episode of the podcast Revisionist History, author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell shares his experience taking a ride with Waymo outside Phoenix, Arizona one morning.

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The global cycling community has grown throughout the pandemic, so Let’s Talk Autonomous Driving spoke with cyclist and Waymo Product Manager Eric Deng about how the Waymo Driver is designed with cyclists in mind.

Summer also overlaps with a time road safety advocates refer to as the “100 Deadliest Days” of the year. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, more young people lose their lives due to car crashes and other destructive decisions than any other time of year.