Get out of the driver's seat, humans

Here are two things we know about human beings: First, they are nowhere near as good at driving as they like to think. Second, they are very resistant to change, even when that change will prevent millions of deaths

How bad at driving are we? In the U.S. alone, we get into roughly 5.5 million crashes a year, at an estimated cost of $450 billion. The last year that fewer than 30,000 people died on American roads was 1945. Yet we celebrate because that number decreased from the horrific 50,000-a-year high it hit in 1980 — back to a more manageable 33,000 a year

Compared to the rest of the world, however, America is the little old lady doing 20 miles per hour in the slow lane of death. Only about 12 people per 100,000 residents die each year in car crashes. In India, that number is 20. Thailand, Libya, the Dominican Republic and Eritrea are the "winners" — if one can call it that — of this grisly game with around 40 deaths per 100,000 people each year Read more...

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