There is a pedestrian fatality crisis happening in this country. The biggest problem is that america has continued to structure our life around cars and not people. In 20 21, there were about 75 hundred pedestrians killed by drivers,. That was the most in forty years. We think of congestion as normally a bad thing, but it's actually a really good thing.
The data is in on autonomous cars: They are crashing, but they're still doing a lot better than regular cars driven by humans. The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins and Vox’s Marin Cogan take the wheel.
This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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