Tens of thousands of people die every year in vehicular incidents in the US. Who knows how many more are significantly affected health-wise and otherwise in th

Tens of thousands of people die every year in vehicular incidents in the US. Who knows how many more are significantly affected health-wise and otherwise in their life from such incidents. With self-driving cars, those numbers would plummet. It has nothing to do with your other claims, however I would say that it fits the Americanized "because we can!" fantasy. Denser cities don't help that much, because you'd still have the massive scope of inter-city travel. The whole of Great Britain is only a couple hundred miles long in its longest axis, so it's not an applicable model.