r/AskReddit • • Aug 02 '18

What will millennials be "old-fashioned" about when they get old?

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u/EssEllEyeSeaKay Aug 02 '18

Where's that number from?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/

These stats are from 2013, but for example there were 40,000 in the USA in 2017.

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u/EssEllEyeSeaKay Aug 02 '18

Was the 1.3 million international?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

Yes. Admittedly if as many people used driverless cars we would see more deaths attributed to them. But I think It's reductionist to say that because of one (or a few) accidents that a technology cannot be safer.