Cars Don't Kill People

IT IS WIDELY UNDERSTOOD by people who know what's going on that within a few years, all automobiles will be driven by computers, and that therefore the number of people killed in automobile accidents will decrease precipitously, form the current staggering, unbelievable one million per year, approximately, to none. You got that right. Zero. Zilch. The reason, of course, is that computers don't make mistakes, and while people make more mistakes per second while driving than the number of atoms in the universe, causing the annual global vehicular slaughter, computers, make none. Zero, Zilch. Just program them properly, and keep them running, smoothly sure, there will be the occasional computer driven automotive accident, band perhaps a fatality or tow, but it will be demonstrably attributable to human error, not computer error. computer driven cars will save a million lives a year, so, its gonna happen. too many people insist on it. first, computer control will be optional, then, it will become mandatory, for obvious reasons. Cars don't kill people. People kill people, sometimes, in fact all too often, while driving cars. In a way, people and cars work together to kill people, the people supplying the brains, and cars, the muscle. There really isn't much we can do about people, other than to encourage them to drive safely, so we have to do what we can with cars. We make them safer, and, after decades of trying, we are on the verge of making cars so safe as to be harmless, or rather, so as to prevent people from harming themselves using cars. Much the same is true about guns; they don't kill people, people kill people, using guns. And, there is only so much we can do to improve people. Background checks, mental health programs, will only go so far in preventing gun violence. We are reduced, like it or not, to trying to do what we can with guns, just like cars, to make them safer. We are stuck with people using guns, wrongly, and we must not blame the guns. But we can control guns much more than we can control people, correct? Agreed? So. let's do what we can do. Let's ban assault weapons, and institute universal background checks, immediately. and also, let's take a look at countries, like England and Australia, which suddenly got rid of guns, and greatly reduced gun violence. We might want to imitate them, to save lives. Even if it means giving up our precious guns. The awful truth is, we human beings simply are not capable of operating machines like cars or guns properly, without inflicting carnage upon each other. The only question is: How do we prevent the carnage? And the answer, obviously, is, by doing whatever is required.