So, self-driving cars will be limited to about a billion people in the short-term? In the US alone we have about 4.5 million accidents and 30,000 deaths yearly.
Perhaps the rest of the world will see the benefit and adapt to the cars.
Perhaps the rest of the world will see the benefit and adapt to the cars.
More like 40,000 deaths yearly, these days. In 2015, it was 38,300 [1], and it had increased 8% (or 2067 deaths) in the first nine months of 2016 [2].
[1] http://www.newsweek.com/2015-brought-biggest-us-traffic-deat...
[2] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/traffic-deaths-surg...