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2024 J.L. & Mobility 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/jlwmby2024 and id is 1 raw text is: KEEP THE DRIVER IN DRIVERLESS CARS: LET'S TAKE A FEW CUES FROM THE AVIATION INDUSTRY TIFANI SADEK* Cite as: Tifani Sadek, Keep the Driver in Driverless Cars: Let's Take a Few Cues from the Aviation Industry, 2024 J. L. MOB. 1. As a law professor who studies mobility, I spend many waking hours thinking about fully automated vehicles, those cars that drive themselves without any need for a human operator. As a true believer in this technology, I think the widespread deployment of these vehicles will get more people home safely, give commuters their time back, and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in our environment. However, lately, I worry whether this will ever happen. A recent Pew study showed that only 26% of the U.S. public believes that self-driving cars are a good thing for society, which is an all-time low.' To the public, the deployment of automated vehicle technology seems rushed, inconvenient, and dangerous. The more I hear from people outside of the mobility industry, the more it feels like the industry is focused on creating a solution in search of a problem. Yet a problem exists. Nearly 40,000 people will die on the road this year in the U.S. alone,2 with human error as a causal factor in the majority ofthose crashes.3 We will spend hundreds of billions of dollars repairing the damage to people and property caused by vehicular collisions.4 People will waste * Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Director, Law and Mobility Program; Co-director, Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic. 1. Lee Rainie et al., Americans Cautious About the Deployment of Driverless Cars, PEW RSCH. CTR. (Mar. 17, 2022), https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/03/17/americans-cautious-about-the- deployment-of-driverless-cars. 2. NHTSA Estimates Traffic Fatalities Continued to Decline in the First Half of 2023, NHTSA (Sept. 28, 2023), https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2023-Q2-traffic- fatality-estimates. 3. SANTOKH SINGER, CRITICAL REASONS FOR CRASHES INVESTIGATED IN THE NATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH CAUSATION SURVEY (2018), https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/812506.pdf. 4. NHTSA: Traffic Crashes Cost America $340 Billion in 2019, NHTSA (Jan. 10, 1

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