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No Humans really aren't that good at driving cars, 33,561 people were killed just in 2012 in the US[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle

• TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
  ...Which, as this [1] commenter points out, works out to a per-mile success rate of 99.999925%. (Or, alternatively, works out to on average one injury or death per 1.33 million miles traveled.) Or, to put that number in perspective, there are 435,000 deaths per year caused by tobacco in the US - 13 times that number. [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8700342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8700342 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_preventable_causes_of_death#Leading_causes_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_preventable_causes_of_...