https://medium.com/radical-urbanist/do-self-driving-car-companies-really-care-about-safety-7165162f0db6

Paris MarxBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 10Uber vehicle after deadly crash in March 2018. Source: NTSBA lot of big promises have been made about self-driving cars. If you listen to their boosters, the technology is poised to eliminate traffic, end car ownership, get rid of parking garages, address the carbon footprint of transportation, give us more time to work or use our phones — and those are just the ones at the top of my mind.

But biggest of all has to be the promise to save approximately 40,000 lives lost every year in vehicle crashes and collisions across the United States. The claim is always in the marketing issued by the companies working on autonomous vehicles, but can the claims of executives at Uber, Waymo, Tesla, GM, Ford, and others that their technologies will achieve this goal really be believed?