To study these types of injuries, Scanlon and his team first needed footage from hundreds of car crashes, so it partnered with dash cam company Nexar. Sifting through Nexar’s anonymized data of 500 million miles of driving, Scanlon’s team successfully reconstructed 335 crashes involving VRUs — pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists — in six American cities. However, the data was heavily skewed toward New York City, where 80 percent of the incidents took place. The anonymous individuals in the dataset suffered moderate to severe injuries, depending on the collision, but none of the crashes Waymo studied were fatal.
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