More than 10k of those U.S. people die from alcohol related crashes. Would you be happy with your car being just marginally better than a drunk driver? It could save so many lives!
Okay maybe just drunk drivers are a bad comparison, let's look at all of those accidents. They aren't all drunk people. Turns out like 95% of them are due to similar human stupidity though. So unless you want your car to be better than a terrible driver, it doesn't have to just reduce accidents by a little, it has to reduce accidents by 95%. Otherwise you're advocating for the analogue of a lyft driver who is looking at their phone and only a little tipsy to replace you behind the wheel. Yeah maybe it'll decrease deaths, but I'm not buying one, nor am I advocating for legalizing the equivalent of a driver on their phone and kinda tipsy.
Okay maybe just drunk drivers are a bad comparison, let's look at all of those accidents. They aren't all drunk people. Turns out like 95% of them are due to similar human stupidity though. So unless you want your car to be better than a terrible driver, it doesn't have to just reduce accidents by a little, it has to reduce accidents by 95%. Otherwise you're advocating for the analogue of a lyft driver who is looking at their phone and only a little tipsy to replace you behind the wheel. Yeah maybe it'll decrease deaths, but I'm not buying one, nor am I advocating for legalizing the equivalent of a driver on their phone and kinda tipsy.