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What if Carl Benz 150 years ago would have bee confronted with the calculation of how many traffic kills his invention would score per anno, worldwide (far over one million, says the WHO, btw), and if somebody would have calculated for him how his invention would contribute to the emmission of climate-critical pollution? We probably would have no cars today, for his invention would have been stopped-to-death in its infant shoes. This is how a German TV anchorm commented on the issue yesterday.

Tesla says that statisctically every 150 million kilometers driven in a normal car somebody dies due to traffic accident cause dby car. The Tesla model now had already driven 225 million km.

We also know how notoriously irresponsible and incompetent especially young male drivers in the age group 18-25 can be if you let them take control of a wheel. Lets face it: a good ammount of young men from that age group should be banned from driving until they reach the mid-20s.

Finally we know from other transportation, espoecially train, that the majority of accidents get caused not due to failing technology, but failing humans.

Personally I feel little sympathy for automatic car driving - but if it is technologically possible, the development has plotted course for it in the future for sure. Its always like this with technology. What can be done, will be done.

Still I plead to leave this accident in relation to all car traffic there is - and the accident numbers that traditional carcv traffic causes: and almost always due to human error. I wonder how the description of the killed Tesla driver fits into that last sentence again.