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Traffic Deaths Spiked This Year; Some Say Self-Driving Cars can Bring them Back Down

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 12 2016, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the pay-attention-to-the-road dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Fatal crashes in the first half of 2016 jumped by more than 1,500 when compared to last year, marking the largest spike in 50 years. 

From January to June, 17,775 people died in traffic-related incidents, increasing by 10.4 percent from the same period in 2015, a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found. While traffic deaths remain significantly lower than pre-2006 numbers, many aren't satisfied and say there's more to be done to ensure safety on the nation's streets. As the United States continues to lag behind other industrialized nations in traffic safety numbers, some are looking to autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles as an answer to accidental fatalities caused by human error in motor vehicle crashes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @08:51PM (#413635)

    Nice and snarky. Was expecting something like this in here.

    How does the stats break down.

    Age/make of car?
    Age of driver?
    Area of driver/accident?
    Cause of accident?
    Experience of driver?

    These sorts of stats where everything is lumped together make fixing the issue meaningless and a guess to what is wrong. You can very easily blame bad driving when it could be a faulty part OEM or a combination.