The car was traveling 17 mph and applied the brakes as soon as the child stepped out from behind a vehicle, striking the child at 6 mph. Waymo claims the average human driver would have struck the child at 14 mph.

Waymo has only been involved in two fatal accidents, and both of those seem to have not been Waymo's fault.

https://www.damfirm.com/waymo-accident-statistics.html

I'm nowhere near their operating area, but I'm optimistic about their technology. I would be way more likely to entrust my safety to their lidar-based sensing than to Tesla's camera-only sensing.