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Why not demonize driving? Roughly 1.3 _million_ people die in or from cars every year worldwide [1]. In the US that's 37000 per year, roughly equivalent to 10 9
by cletus 10y ago
Why not demonize driving? Roughly 1.3 _million_ people die in or from cars every year worldwide [1]. In the US that's 37000 per year, roughly equivalent to 10 9/11s. Yet we not only subsidize car ownership (roads, parking, etc) and seem blasé to this carnage, we defend this practice as some kind of freedom.
It's utterly insane. Self-driving cars will imho be utterly transformative to society that one day we will look back on this century of driving vehicle ourselves as the barbaric hocum that it is.
[1] http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safety-facts/road-crash-statistics http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...
- SFJulie 10y agoWhat is insane is calling a death/injuries made by car an accident. An accident is utterly unavoidable. And cars are a deterministic cause of death. Cars are basically having way more kinetic energy than a bullet. Guns are free to have in USA, but are people free to shoot RPG, ak47, M60 in the street 3 feet away from kids without indignations or a cop intervening? The Jay walking is shifting the blame on the pedestrians. Injuries/deaths caused by cars should be considered like homicides or attempt of homicides. It is not a demonization in this case, it is a fair claim of responsibility since there is a causal link between driving a car with high kinetic energy and potential resulting death. I am not even talking of pollution and chronic diseases like asthma.
- xtreme 10y agoIt's a rather recent phenomenon that we have enough computing power to make self-driving cars a viable reality and not just science fiction.