Why Autonomous Cars Matter More Than You Think

25 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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TJ Walker discusses the global toll of road traffic deaths to motivate interest in autonomous vehicles. He cites roughly 1.2 million annual fatalities worldwide (over 2000 per day), compares this total to US war deaths (including the Civil War), and notes the lack of public attention despite the large scale. The speaker also mentions personal experience riding in a Waymo.

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I am fascinated by autonomous vehicles. I don't own one. I have been in a Waymo, and it's because I don't really like 1.2 million people a year dying in car crashes around the world. You may be like, that can't be right. That's too many. No, it's a lot. It's more than have died in all US wars combined, and that's including the Civil War, which killed about half a million people. It's a tremendous amount of carnage worldwide, and yet nobody hears about it. It's not a plane flying into a building. Killing 2000 at once doesn't get attention. But more than 2000 die every single day. When you aggregate the deaths across the entire.