Electric autonomous vehicles are a technology that’s time has come for many reasons. Avoiding unnecessary carnage, cost and loss from intoxicated and inattentive drivers is a huge one.
In the meantime, as with drinking and driving, zero social and legal tolerance are necessary to effect behavioral changes. (Send this documentary link to anyone you know who is still fiddling with their phones while driving).
After falling for 35 years, road fatalities have been increasing again for the past two years with the proliferation of ‘smart’ phone use. But for the evolution of safety features like seat belts and airbags, you have to believe that the number of road fatalities today would be higher still. Bikers and pedestrians are not so lucky. And of course, it’s not just fatalities. For injured survivors, their families and taxpayers, there are lifelong costs and suffering.
Publishing accurate facts on the cost and carnage is also critical. Right now, that is not happening. See: Smartphones are killing Americans, but no one is counting.
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