We need to investigate whether the manual car could have save this accident...If not, then why one accident will decide the future of self-driving cars...Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day.... Even 1-2% reduction in deaths by the implementation of self driving cars will be a great achievement...
RE: Woman Killed By Self-Driving Car: What does this mean for your future?
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I heard it was about 37,000 killed but that could be wrong. Either way, I have to agree with you that the driverless cars will be enormously more safe. They don't get drunk. They won't get distracted by talking with another person. They won't try to "hot dog" it to impress someone nearby. We need to first, study thoroughly what went wrong in this case, and then implement plans so something like it won't happen in the future.
Thank you for your comment, @hms818.
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Hi, @hms818. My understanding is there are about 37,000 auto accident deaths in the US every year. Your larger number may be a global number. This technology could save lives both in the US and throughout the world.
I think the self-driving cars may have different accidents than human driven cars. So there is a chance that self-driving cars will kill some people that wouldn't get killed by manually driven cars. But the self-driving cars should save many lives in other situations.
I think if we look at the net improvement and the direction to less auto injuries and deaths we are looking at the right metric.
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