💬 Opinion 6h ago · Andrew Miller

The Self-Driving Car Fight in Congress Isn't Really About Safety at All

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The Self-Driving Car Fight in Congress Isn't Really About Safety at All
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To put American traffic deaths in perspective, consider the Miami Marlins. Since 2012, the baseball team has played its home games at the stadium now called LoanDepot Park. The field's official capacity is 36,742, roughly the number of Americans who die in traffic crashes every year. America loses a baseball stadium's worth of lives to vehicular accidents every 12 months.
For the first time, there's a way to prevent many, and perhaps most, of those deaths: self-driving cars. 
But self-driving ca

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