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0 pointsakira25019y ago0 comments

> If you're an American, you're twice as likely to die with a steering wheel in your hands as you are to die at the hands of a murderer. Human-driven vehicle deaths cause grave second-order suffering for families and friends - and hurt the economy.

If you're an American you're more likely to die from suicide than you are from motor vehicle related injuries. You're more likely to be poisoned than to die in a motor vehicle crash. You're 16 times more likely to die from heart disease or cancer.

Compared to 1950, motor vehicle death rates have more than halved.

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thucydides9y ago

There are 30,000 motor vehicle deaths in America each year. In perhaps 30 years, fully autonomous vehicles could cut all of that needless carnage to nearly nothing.

And what about the hundreds of thousands of injuries we'll be spared?

Worldwide, fully-autonomous vehicles will be a public health victory on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics.

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tigroferoce9y ago

I wonder how many of those cancers are due to petrol car pollution ;-)

MicroBerto9y ago

> Compared to 1950, motor vehicle death rates have more than halved.

This is due to safer cars, no doubt.

I'd love to see some stats between 2008 and 2015, which I believe would show the abundant increase in distracted drivers thanks to smart phones.

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