Driverless Cars Could Save Millions Of Lives

In the next decade you might have the chance to buy a self-driving car. Doing so just might end up saving your life. Yours and literally hundreds of thousands of other people in the U.S. alone. According to new research , driverless cars could, by midcentury, reduce traffic fatalities by up to 90 %. which means that self-driving cars could save almost 30,000 lives a year . In the United States alone, that's nearly 300,000 fatalities prevented over the course of a decade.

John Iadarola (Think Tank) explains how many lives and how much money we will save when self-driving cars become the norm. Do you plan on buying a self-driving car when they are commercially available? Let us know in the comments.

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If driverless cars deliver on their promise to eliminate the vast majority of fatal traffic accidents, the technology will rank among the most transformative public-health initiatives in human history. But how many lives, realistically, will be saved?

By the end of this century, there’s good reason to believe that tens of millions of traffic fatalities will be prevented around the world.

This is not merely theoretical. There’s already some precedent for change of this magnitude in the realms of car culture and automotive safety. In 1970, about 60,000 people died in traffic accidents in the United States. A dramatic shift toward safety—including required seat belts and ubiquitous airbags—helped vastly improve a person’s chance of surviving the American roadways in the decades that followed. By 2013, 32,719 people died in traffic crashes, a historic low.

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