In 2015, statistics show that 56% of American teenagers talk on the phone while driving. 2,715 of them died in 2015, and 221,313 were injured in car accidents, half of which involved a single vehicle. By contrast, in 2015, self-driving cars (without drinking, distractions, and having many more “eyes”) caused only one accident since they began hitting public roads (3.5 million kilometers traveled by Google’s Waymo cars alone). The only accident was a swipe against the side of a bus at 3 km/h. The accident rate per kilometer calculated over nine years is 40 times lower than that of drivers aged 16 to 19, and 10 times lower than that of drivers aged 50 to 59. And these are just the first prototypes…
