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>> And like 3-5 million other people a year, the homeless person walking across the street was killed in a car accident. 3-5 million people a year? Are you add
by w0utert 9y ago
>> And like 3-5 million other people a year, the homeless person walking across the street was killed in a car accident.
3-5 million people a year? Are you adding all road fatalities worldwide together here, including those in countries with fatality rates that are literally 100 times that of any developed country, and which are by causes completely unrelated to the kinds of problems autonomous cars try to solve?
The number of road fatalities in all of the US is close to 40K last year. Still a lot, but almost over 100 times less than the figure you quoted. The number of non-vehicle deaths (like pedestrians) is measured in the hundreds [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...