"It would be madness to block automation in fields such as transport and healthcare just in order to protect human jobs. After all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs. Self-driving vehicles could provide people with much better transport services, and in particular, reduce mortality from traffic accidents. Today close to 1.25 million people are killed annually in traffic accidents (twice the number killed by war, crime, and terrorism combined). More than 90 percent of these accidents are caused by very human errors: somebody drinking alcohol and driving, texting while driving [...]. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated in 2012 that 31 percent of fatal crashes in the USA involved alcohol abuse, 30 percent involved speeding, and 21 percent involved distracted drivers. Self-driving vehicles will never do any of these things. Though they suffer from their own problems and limitations, and though some accidents are inevitable, replacing all human drivers by computers is expected to reduce deaths and injuries on the road by about 90 percent. In other words, switching to autonomous vehicles is likely to save the lives of a million people every year." - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CLWx1DEAu_j/
