ICE vehicles will be the dominant mode of transportation for many decades to come. And the idea that self driving vehicles will eliminate accidents is a joke when you see how far removed we are from that being a viable technology.
To be honest, I think there is a kind of double standard going on here.
Self-driving vehicles will get into accidents. The question becomes whether they will get into more or less accidents, when compared to human-driven vehicles (when driven the same distance, under the same driving conditions). And this is where the issue of the double standard comes in.
If you get 1 accident with a self-driving car in 1 bazzillion miles driven, some people will take that to be evidence that self-driving cars are a failure, even if you would have gotten 100s of accidents from human-driven vehicles over the same distance.
EVs also don't address the high cost of owning a personal vehicle, they don't solve the fact that car-dependent infrastructure is wasteful and socially damaging.
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