{"id":703,"date":"2026-07-01T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:40:12","slug":"the-war-on-self-driving-cars-will-kill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"The War on Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Car accidents kill 100 Americans every day.<\/p>\n

But now an amazing solution is available: self-driving cars.<\/p>\n

Robotaxis like Google-owned Waymo, for example.<\/p>\n

Passengers who try them like them. Wherever robotaxis are allowed, ridership increases fast. Two years ago, there were 50,000 trips per week\u2014today 500,000.<\/p>\n

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“The car did a better job than if somebody was driving!” says a passenger in my new video.<\/p>\n

Waymo claims its cars are 10 times safer than human-driven ones. I wouldn’t believe that if insurance companies, with their own money at stake, didn’t agree.<\/p>\n

Reinsurance News<\/em> reports Waymos had an “88 percent reduction in property damage claims and a 92 percent reduction in bodily injury claims.”<\/p>\n

“We have the data,” says Adam Thierer, author of Permissionless Innovation<\/em>. “94 percent of all accidents are attributable to human error\u2026.We can address one of the leading killers of Americans.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, some politicians say you shouldn’t be allowed<\/em>\u00a0to try robotaxis.<\/p>\n

New York state Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D\u2013Bronx) wants a law that says motor vehicles for hire “shall not be\u2026operated by an automated driving system without a human driver\u2026seated behind the steering wheel and engaged in the task of driving.”<\/p>\n

He says the state must protect immigrant taxi and Uber drivers who live in his district.<\/p>\n

“I cannot support something that is going to almost overnight lead to loss of jobs of over 100,000 people,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Even if he isn’t needed?” I ask. “Even if he’s worse than the machine?”<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that having an individual in a vehicle would be worse than a machine,” says Sepulveda.<\/p>\n

“That’s just wrong,” says Thierer. “Humans get drunk, drowsy, distracted. Say what you want about robots, they don’t get drunk.”<\/p>\n

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Sepulveda responds: “Waymo is going to make billions of dollars\u2014let them pay for the disruption to the labor force.”<\/p>\n

“Sounds like a mafia pitch,” I push back. “‘Want to come here, Waymo? You have to pay.'”<\/p>\n

“If the pitch sounds like a mafia pitch, so be it,” Sepulveda replies.<\/p>\n

I thought I might change his thinking by making a creepy comparison, telling him his ban would kill more people than infamous serial killers have. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy combined killed about 80 people. Human-driven cars kill more people every day.<\/p>\n

“The data on Waymo is not 100 percent safety,” he replies. “A Waymo vehicle struck a child in California.”<\/p>\n

Like most critics, he cites isolated incidents. Even that child wasn’t injured.<\/p>\n

Millions of miles of data show that robocars are much<\/em> safer.<\/p>\n

And they keep getting safer. We humans learn from our own experiences, but self-driving cars learn from millions of miles of experience. They get better while we sleep.<\/p>\n

Yes, some drivers will lose jobs. But technology constantly does that. Despite all the jobs destroyed by computers, U.S. unemployment has stayed relatively low.<\/p>\n

Typists, switchboard operators, and elevator operators lost jobs. But most found other jobs, often better jobs.<\/p>\n

“Some people want<\/em> cars with no drivers,” I tell Sepulveda. “Women feel unsafe. Some drivers don’t smell good. Some are reckless.”<\/p>\n

“Many women feel safer with a driver,” he replies.<\/p>\n

“Shouldn’t people have the choice?” I ask.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely.”<\/p>\n

“But you want to take away the choice!”<\/p>\n

“No,” says Sepulveda. “I’m saying, [protect] the drivers that exist now.”<\/p>\n

I say, with 100 Americans dying in cars every day,<\/em>\u00a0politicians who slow the arrival of self-driving cars have blood on their hands.<\/p>\n

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