Re:Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
by ijk on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:12PM
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> 30000 people dead every year,
It's worse than that: the annual global estimates are 1.2 million dead, 50 million injured. [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_motor_vehicle_c...
Since you insisted on cars: the short answer is that theres lots of evidence humans can't drive cars. It goes well 99.9% of the time and the rest ends up being 30000 people dead every year, many of them not in a car at their death. So they died for somebody elses convenience, and that turns out to be a rather common occurence with cars and all the things they bring along (just look for the free parking debate below). So the sentiment in countries that have had cars for a long a time and have seen the effects of that is shifting to no longer put up with it, certainly in cities where suburbia descends every morning.