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Gary Peters: “Almost 100 people die [on U.S. highways] every day.”

Featuring: Gary Peters, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Michigan

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EDITORIAL INTERVIEW with Gary Peters, US Senator (D-Mich.) | POLITICO

Published | Video Starts at 10:19

It'll be like a top story that a self driving car is an accident, someone was injured. That's in an environment where Almost 100 people die [on U.S. highways] every day. on our roads. That never gets reported. Every single day, 100 people die. That doesn't get reported. But the self driving car, something different about an accident with a machine than it is with a human driver. (10:19–10:20)

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Asserts that nearly 100 people die daily on U.S. highways.

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