Comment by blululu

This is kind of a classic misinformation pattern to present contrasting view points side by side as if they are an order of magnitude as common. similar thing used to happen in climate change discussions where an actual scientist would be expected to debate some random guy under the pretense of neutrality. The article goes out of its way to claim that statistics can’t really capture the lived experience (which they don’t even bother to include any actual figures as some kind of insult to their reader’s intelligence). I personally had a cat killed by a human driven car (20 years ago but why not). I personally have been hit by human driven cars (before Waymo existed but still happened). Both incidents are on the rare side. Cars are fundamentally dangerous. But we could pull up the actual vehicle-mile statistics and make a honest comparison instead of going round and round about opinions.