S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
"Skyrocket" is a word people use when they don't have the data to support their claim, but want to make it sound as extreme as possible.When I hear "skyrocket" I think "several orders of magnitude in a very short time".  But the source of the quote with skyrocket, basically admits that they didn't have any quantitative evidence to support a massive change in incidents.Remember: reality is banal.  Things are far better explained by sampling error, bias, and base rates, than they are by sudden, dramatic shifts caused by a single factor.