Next decade, the NYT will run another story titled: "Biggest drop in traffic deaths in 60 years".

Autonomous cars are around the corner and it's the only way to truly make a leap forward in terms of traffic safety.

And people can spend even more time on their apps while commuting, uninterrupted by this soon-to-be-forgotten distraction called "manual driving".

Incidentally wrote a blog about this today: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/safer-roads-and-cleaner...