, Columnist
All Driving Is Dangerous, Tesla
Roads are dangerous, regardless of advances in technology.
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Every car on the roads is an accident waiting to happen. It's about time Silicon Valley woke up to the fact.
The boom in autonomous-driving technology offers the prospect of one day reducing the roughly 90 percent of road accidents caused by so-called human factors -- drivers or pedestrians who are drunk, or distracted, or tired. But Tesla's first fatality from a car crashing in its self-driving mode is a sad reminder that the industry has a long way to go, and perhaps needs to slow down.