A Transit Advocate’s Case for Autonomous Vehicles

How to Use New Tech Without Repeating Old Mistakes

In the United States, someone dies in a car crash every 12.5 minutes. That’s the equivalent of a fully loaded Airbus A220 crashing every single day, or wiping out a city the size of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA every year.

The main cause? Humans. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 94% of crashes are due to human error. I, like ma…