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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by itengelhardt on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:38AM (#15096151)
That's why at current we have 1.3 million people dying on the road in the US alone. It might make the matter of transitioning to self-driving worse, but it also makes manual driving worse.
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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by alanh on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:42AM (#15096621)
The WSJ article includes NHTSA data indicating 'only' 35,000 traffic fatalities per yeah. Where are you getting this 1.3 million number from? That would be equivalent to a full 1% of US population dying on the road every 2.5 years
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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by itengelhardt on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:39AM (#15097690)
you're right. I googled for "number of car deaths in US" (or so I thought) and that number came up. 1.3M seems to be the number for world wide fatalities.
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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by ericd on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:48AM (#15096647)
That number sounds like the worldwide number, not US. Many places have much, much worse road fatalities per capita.
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