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> Let’s hope technology will finally prevent that.

Funny, because it's technology that caused the death in the first place. Maybe consider how to get rid of the car?

How many deaths would getting rid of modern transportation cause? You can't just measure something by the negatives.

Lots of everyday technology has the potential to cause death. People sometimes get hit by trains and those run on tracks. Whether the advantage of using the technology outweigh the downsides is always the tradeoff we need to decide on with an eye on trying to eliminate the downsides as much as possible while retaining the benefits.

True, just pointing out the irony of waiting for technology to fix technology.

True, but is it any more ironic than continuing to bring more people into existence with such typical cheery optimism despite the fact that the very act of doing so also condemns them at some point to die a certain death?

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