Researchers estimate that driverless cars could, by midcentury, reduce traffic fatalities by up to 90 percent. Which means that, using the number of fatalities in 2013 as a baseline, self-driving cars could save 29,447 lives a year. In the United States alone, that's nearly 300,000 fatalities prevented over the course of a decade, and 1.5 million lives saved in a half-century. — CityLab
Accidents happen. But do they have to? Researchers estimate that driverless cars could save up to $190 billion in health-care costs and 50 million lives worldwide over five decades.
For more of Archinect's coverage on changes in driving and car culture, check out these stories:
• Traffic Lights are Easy to Hack
• More roads won't ease traffic, but charging drivers more at peak hours will
• From California to Texas, car culture is losing its monopoly
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