It’s time for policymakers to side with the safety data and allow for the rollout of safe AVs in California.
people in Los Angeles than homicides in 2023, with the city surpassing more than 300 traffic-related deaths last year. The culprit behind these record traffic fatalities is all too familiar: human drivers. But just as autonomous vehicles begin to offer an alternative to the deadly status quo created by drivers, opponents of the new technology are campaigning to smear AVs’ safety record.all focused on sharing the message that AVs are “reckless” and “destructive.
Those are life-saving numbers. In fact, if autonomous vehicles represented just 13 percent of the cars on the road in California,finds that AVs would have saved an estimated 1,300 lives over the last three years and prevented up to 5,000 serious injuries. While a mass of research on AV and human driver safety contradicts the Teamsters’ safety rhetoric, the union has another argument they’ve deployed against AVs – a fear that AVs will lead to lost jobs.finding that AVs are poised to create 114,000 jobs over the next 15 years in production, distribution, maintenance, upgrades, and repairs. Better yet, an estimated 82 percent of AV workers will make more than the median wage.
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