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Waymo and AAA team up for self-driving car safety

Posted at 7:39 AM, Sep 30, 2019
and last updated 2019-09-30 13:40:06-04

Waymo is a paid sponsor of Sonoran Living.

AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah joined Waymo's Let's Talk Self Driving Campaign to increase awareness, education and understanding around the safety and mobility benefits of self-driving vehicles with the public.

The AAA School Safety Patrol program was founded in the U.S. in 1920 and has since expanded to at least 30 other countries. Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the program has given millions of students the opportunity to serve as leaders for safety at their own schools.

AAA has partnered with Waymo to develop a Lesson Plan module about self driving car safety that will better help students understand how to be safe around driverless vehicles. This self driving car safety module encourages students to think about how AV's can limit unsafe driving behavior such as texting and eating while driving. AAA's School Safety Lesson Plan is a free, downloadable curriculum containing modules that cover a variety of safety issues that arise as students travel to and from school and also issues that may arise while they're in school.

With over 40,000 traffic fatalities on roads in the United States each year, and 94% caused by human factors, AAA believes the advancement of self-driving technologies has the potential to revolutionize mobility and traffic safety.

AAA
Arizona
(925) 274-8580
https://schoolsafety.calstate.aaa.com/

Plus, learn more about self-driving vehicles at www.Waymo.com.