Safer for whom? Pedestrian fatality rates have exploded upward in recent years in the united states, at the highest rates in 41 years. up 77% since 2010. Cars

Safer for whom? Pedestrian fatality rates have exploded upward in recent years in the united states, at the highest rates in 41 years. up 77% since 2010. Cars are inherently unsafe but we refuse to disengage from this failed model despite the solutions (ie. public transit) being right there for decades and decades. Self driving public transport in contrast is a solved problem. Vancouver's driverless Skytrain has been serving customers since the early 1980s (as you say, requiring a driver only in the rare exception of some emergency or technical malfunction).