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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by lexandstuff on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:41PM (#36182883)
Road deaths are the biggest killer of people aged 9 to 29, taking about 1.35M lives annually. That's roughly on par with USA Coronavirus deaths for the entire pandemic.

If autonomous driving can considerably reduce that road death number, I'd say it's a worthwhile endeavour.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by comicjk on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:05AM (#36183000)
Where are you getting that death number? I'm seeing numbers around 43k, 30 times lower. Is your figure including health damage from air pollution or something? Or is it an aggregate over many years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by peyton on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:09AM (#36183015)
Dude it’s obviously the global number.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by comicjk on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:00AM (#36183224)
I think you're right, though I don't think it's so obvious when it's being specifically compared with US COVID deaths.
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