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To play Devil's advocate, there were over 100 people killed in the US TODAY from non-autonomous vehicles [1].

Obviously we'd need to know the number of miles driven in each category to get a meaningful comparison, but let's all keep in mind a USA where only one person per day is killed on the roads would be a two order of magnitude improvement over today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...



If you look elsewhere in the comments, you'll see some numbers. Autonomous vehicles are new enough that they come out as more dangerous even with one death.




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