From: Autonomous vehicles are cost-effective when used as taxis
 | Low Value | Base Value | High Value |
---|---|---|---|
Selected Costs ($)a | |||
 Property Damage Only Crash (Blincoe et al. 2015) | 2976 | 4251 | 5526 |
 Minor Injury Crash (Blincoe et al. 2015) | 3129 | 12,282 | 61,352 |
 Severe Injury Crash (Blincoe et al. 2015) | 200,241 | 274,553 | 1,101,865 |
 Fatal Crash (Blincoe et al. 2015) | 1,072,412 | 1,532,018 | 1,991,623 |
 Property Damage Only Crash AV (Blincoe et al. 2015; Greenblatt and Saxena 2015; Vallet 2016) | 3123 | 4461 | 5799 |
 Minor Injury Crash AV (Blincoe et al. 2015; Greenblatt and Saxena 2015; Vallet 2016) | 3864 | 13,332 | 62,717 |
 Severe Injury Crash AV (Blincoe et al. 2015; Greenblatt and Saxena 2015; Vallet 2016) | 214,206 | 294,503 | 1,127,800 |
 Fatal Crash AV (Blincoe et al. 2015; Greenblatt and Saxena 2015; Vallet 2016) | 1,086,965 | 1,552,808 | 2,018,650 |
 Autonomous Vehicle (Greenblatt and Saxena 2015) | 122,218 | 183,666 | 265,648 |
 Autonomous Vehicle in 5 Years (Greenblatt and Saxena 2015; Strawn and Strawn 2015) | 33,229 | 56,539 | 100,383 |
 Human Piloted Vehicle (New-car transaction prices up 2 percent in march 2016, along with increases in incentive spend, according to Kelley blue book [press release] 2016) | 17,218 | 33,666 | 70,648 |
 Annual Cost of Owning Car (American Automobile Association 2014) |  | 8536 |  |
 Funeral (National Funeral Directors Association 2017) | 6206 | 7332 | 8687 |
 Productivity (United States Office of Personnel Management n.d.; American Automobile Association 2015; Proctor et al. 2016) | 552 | 1657 | 2762 |
 Parking spot for non-taxi (The Economist 2017; Chester et al. 2010) | 47,600 | 102,000 | 176,800 |
 Parking spot for taxi (The Economist 2017; Chester et al. 2010) | 0 | 30,000 | 80,000 |
 Taxi Salary (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015) | 19,432 | 27,760 | 36,088 |
 Cost of Taxi (New-car transaction prices up 2 percent in march 2016, along with increases in incentive spend, according to Kelley blue book [press release] 2016; New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission 2014) | 92,699 | 132,427 | 172,155 |
 Cost of AV Taxi (Greenblatt and Saxena 2015; New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission 2014) | 197,699 | 282,427 | 367,155 |
Selected Probabilities | |||
 Human Piloted Vehicle (Blincoe et al. 2015; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2016) | |||
  Crash | – | 0.0646 | – |
  Property Damage Only Crash | – | 0.6091 | – |
  Minor Injury from Crash | – | 0.3766 | – |
  Severe Injury from Crash | – | 0.0090 | – |
  Death from Crash | – | 0.0054 | – |
 Autonomous Vehicle (Waymo 2016b) | |||
  Crash | 0.06729 | 0.08385 | 0.09319 |
  Property Damage Only Crash | 0.9551 | 0.9654 | 0.9777 |
  Minor Injury from Crash | 0.0220 | 0.0315 | 0.0409 |
  Severe Injury from Crash | 2.09E-04 | 2.99E-03 | 3.88E-03 |
  Death from Crash | 6.48E-05 | 9.26E-05 | 1.20E-04 |