{"id":18005,"date":"2015-09-30T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/self-driving-cars-could-reduce-accidents"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:09:24","slug":"self-driving-cars-could-reduce-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/self-driving-cars-could-reduce-accidents","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars could reduce accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-cars-could-reduce-accidents.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know that self-driving cars are cute and tend to be safer \u2014 at least according to Google\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/google-self-driving-car-rear-ended-company-reports-first-injuries\/\">self-released reports<\/a> to date \u2014 but this new report has the self-driving revolution holding massive potential as one of the greatest things to happen to public health in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>The Atlantic<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/09\/self-driving-cars-could-save-300000-lives-per-decade-in-america\/407956\/?utm_source=SFTwitter\">reports,<\/a> automated cars could save up to 300,000 lives per decade in the United States. Their reporting is based on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/insights\/automotive_and_assembly\/ten_ways_autonomous_driving_could_redefine_the_automotive_world\">research paper<\/a> by consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Co., which is filled with fascinating ways that self-driving cars will help us accident-prone humans by midcentury.<\/p>\n<p>From the McKinsey report (bold added by us to highlight the mind-blowing data):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/self-driving-cars-could-reduce-accidents-by-90-percent-become-greatest-health-achievement-of-the-century\/?utm_content=buffer3c3ed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that self-driving cars are cute and tend to be safer \u2014 at least according to Google\u2019s self-released reports to date \u2014 but this new report has the self-driving revolution holding massive potential as one of the greatest things to happen to public health in the 21st century. As The Atlantic reports, automated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51402,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005\/revisions\/51402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}