UPDATED report is now here.

The Disengagement Reports for the period December 2017 to November 2018 for all entities operating under a license testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in California is/was out. As the DMV has taken off the reports after a short period (to be republished later this week), the following is what we got so far.

These 28 companies operated over 321 vehicles (a couple of numbers, including Waymo and Zoox, are missing) for autonomous test drives in California. Many of the companies operate many more test cars in other states and countries.

Company Number of Vehicles

2015 2016 2017 2018 AIMotive 2 AiPod 1 Apple 62 Aurora 5 AutoX 6 Baidu 0 1 4 4 BMW 0 1 1 5 Bosch 2 3 3 0 CarOne/UdelV 3 Delphi/Aptiv 1 2 1 13 Drive.ai 0 0 7 13 Ford 0 2 25 0 GMCruise 0 25 95 162 Honda 0 0 0 1 Mercedes 5 1 1 4 NIO 0 1 5 0 Nissan 4 5 5 4 Nuro 13 NVIDIA 0 1 2 7 Phantom.AI 1 Plus.Ai 2 Pony.AI 6 Qualcomm 2 Roadstar.AI 2 SF Motors 1 Telenav 0 1 1 ?? Tesla 0 4 0 ?? TuSimple ?? Valeo 0 1 1 VW 2 0 0 Waymo 57 60 75 ?? WeRide/JingChi ?? Wheego 0 1 0 ?? Zoox 0 1 11 ?? Total 71 103 235 321+

In total all companies drove during that period 2,009,474 miles (3,215,159 kilometers) in autonomous mode and encountered 73,550 disengagements (the moment the system hands back control to a safety driver or the safety driver interferes).

Miles per disengagement or the period between December 2017 and November 2018

Here is the table with the preliminary data sorted by Miles per Disengagement.

2018 Disengagements per 1000 miles Miles per Disengagement Disengagements per 1000 Kilometers Kilometers per Disengagement Waymo 0.09 11154.3 0.06 17846.8 GM Cruise 0.19 5204.9 0.12 8327.8 Zoox 0.50 2000.0 0.31 3200.0 Nuro 0.97 1028.3 0.61 1645.3 Pony.AI 0.98 1022.3 0.61 1635.6 Nissan 4.75 210.5 2.97 336.8 Baidu 4.86 205.6 3.04 329.0 AIMotive 4.96 201.6 3.10 322.6 AutoX 5.24 190.8 3.27 305.3 Roadstar.AI 5.70 175.3 3.56 280.5 Aurora 10.01 99.9 6.26 159.8 Drive.ai 11.91 83.9 7.45 134.3 WeRide/JingChi 13.16 76.0 8.23 121.5 PlusAI 18.40 54.4 11.50 87.0 Phantom AI 48.20 20.7 30.13 33.2 NVIDIA 49.73 20.1 31.08 32.2 TuSimple 86.10 11.6 53.81 18.6 SF Motors 90.56 11.0 56.60 17.7 BMW 219.51 4.6 137.20 7.3 CarOne/Udelv 260.27 3.8 162.67 6.1 Qualcomm 416.63 2.4 260.39 3.8 Honda 458.33 2.2 286.46 3.5 Mercedes Benz 682.52 1.5 426.58 2.3 SAIC 829.61 1.2 518.51 1.9 Apple 871.65 1.1 544.78 1.8

And here a raw list:

2018 Vehicles Disengagements Miles Kilometer AIMotive 2 17 3,428.00 5,485 AiPod 1 – 31.50 50 Apple 62 69,510 79,745.00 127,592 Aurora 5 329 32,858.00 52,573 AutoX 6 119 22,710.00 36,336 Baidu 4 88 18,093.00 28,949 BMW 5 9 41.00 66 Bosch 1 – – – CarOne/Udelv 3 57 219.00 350 Changan 1 – – – Continental 0 – – – CYNGN 0 – – – Delphi/Aptiv 13 – 287.00 459 Drive.ai 13 55 4,616.69 7,387 Faraday Future 0 – – – Ford 0 – – – GM Cruise 162 86 447,621.00 716,194 Honda 1 77 168.00 269 Lyft 0 – – – Mercedes Benz 4 1,194 1,749.39 2,799 Navya 0 – – – NIO 0 – – – Nissan 4 26 5,473.00 8,757 Nullmax 0 – – – Nuro 13 24 24,680.00 39,488 NVIDIA 7 206 4,142.00 6,627 Phantom AI 1 200 4,149.00 6,638 PlusAI 2 199 10,816.00 17,306 Pony.AI 6 16 16,356.00 26,170 Qualcomm 2 100 240.02 384 Renovo.auto 0 – – – Roadstar.AI 2 43 7,539.00 12,062 SAIC 2 526 634.03 1,014 Samsung 2 – – – SF Motors 1 232 2,561.80 4,099 Subaru 6 – – – Telenav ?? – – – Tesla 0 – – – Toyota ?? – – – TuSimple ?? 57 662 1,059 Udacity ?? – – – Valeo ?? – – – VW ?? – – – Voyage ?? – – – Uber ?? – – – Waymo ?? 114 1,271,587 2,034,539 WeRide/Jingchi ?? 251 19,067 30,507 Zoox ?? 15 30,000 48,000 Total 331 73550 2,009,474 3,215,159

More analysis will follow as soon as all the data is public again. Also see as a reference the Disengagement Report 2017.

This article was also published in German.