What Is The Likelihood Of Human Extinction?

How could they possibly know? “A typical person is more than five times as likely to die in an extinction event as in a car crash,” says a new report. We obviously have a much better measure of our risks of dying in a car crash than in an extinction event. Since 1985 motor vehicle death rates in America have dropped by more than half. Cars have gotten a lot safer with better airbags, crumple zone design, and computers that assist driving. The death rate in cars will drop by an order of magnitude or more when autonomous driving technologies hit the market. Improvements in aircraft technologies have similarly made air travel much safer as well. Also, automated equipment is...
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