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Re:The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering ci... by tokenadult on Monday April 28, 2014 @12:11PM (#7660864)
Your statement is factually incorrect according to official statistics,[1] which I found through a very easy Google search after reading your comment. (Note that the statistic shown is for all accidental falls, not just falls on stairways, and even in the aggregate all falls cause fewer deaths than car crashes.)

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm

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Re:The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering ci... by melling on Monday April 28, 2014 @12:16PM (#7660911)
He's way off. About 1300 people die from falling down stairs every year.

http://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm

So, if we reduced auto deaths to 1300 by using self-driving cars, that would be acceptable?

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Re:The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering ci... by voicereasonish on Monday April 28, 2014 @04:21PM (#7662702)
Pretty comparable - 26,000 accidental falls, 30,000 car deaths.
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Re:The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering ci... by melling on Monday April 28, 2014 @07:06PM (#7663733)
You said "fall down the stairs", which I addressed hours ago. Also, you aren't accounting for the hundreds of thousands of people injured and the millions of dollars of damage.
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