A self-driving Uber killed someone. It’s scary. But human-driven cars are far far deadlier. vox.com/science-and-health/2…

A self-driving Uber car killed a pedestrian. Human drivers will kill 16 people today.

Among high-income countries, the US is one of the deadliest places for drivers and pedestrians.

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nitter.vloup.ch/BenRossTransit/s… disagrees with the claim that human-driven cars are (so far) deadlier
Benjamin Ross @BenRossTransit
19 Mar 2018
US has 1 traffic fatality per 85 million miles driven. Uber's self-driving cars have driven ~3 million miles & killed one person

Mar 19, 2018 · 9:41 PM UTC

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as does
Don MacKenzie @DonMacKenzie9
19 Mar 2018
Replying to @CostaSamaras
It's unlikely a fatal crash would have occurred this soon, if Uber's AVs were even equally safe as manual driving. Best estimate at the moment is that they are less safe than human drivers. faculty.washington.edu/dwhm/…