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Self driving vehicles will eliminate the leading cause of death for grownups under 40.

Mass transit construction, promotion, and adoption would solve the same problem with technology that is easier to build and distribute.

The sad reality of our world is that transit hasn’t so far been able to eliminate cars.

We should keep on improving transit, but in the meantime, self driving cars will bring immense safety benefits for cyclists and pedestrians.

People will cycle more around self driving cars because they won’t tailgate and they will pass with the appropriate margin.

Is it realistic to think self-driving cars will have a 0% fatal accident rate?

No of course not. But even a 50% reduction would reduce immense amounts of suffering.

You said ‘eliminate’ the leading cause of death, not ‘greatly reduce’, hence the push back.

Okay, fair point.