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by pythonaut_16 2920 days ago
No, on average existing drivers kill more than 100 people each day [source?].

There's no proof yet that self driving cars are safer than human drivers. And more importantly there's a big difference between being safer on average than a human driver, and being safer than the average human driver.

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The average was 102 per day in 2016, and that is just in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...