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Cars have gotten safer over the years, airbags, seatbelts, better engineering.

But as Waymo's co-CEO to Kedra Mawakana sees it,

there's one safety problem the world has been patching around for decades.

Humans.

Nearly 37,000 people died on roads in the U.S. last year.

And globally, that number is more than one million.

And we've just accepted it.

We don't experience these as 737s falling out of the sky every day.

But that's what it would be if we actually experienced it as mass casualties.

We sort of have to remind people that the status quo is totally unacceptable,

and it's even more unacceptable when you have technology that could help address it.

When most people think about self-driving cars, the first instinct is to worry about whether

they're safe.

But in this conversation with Ted's Vision Stewart and CEO of Khan Academy, Sal Khan, Takedra

flips that question.

What if the real danger is the status quo?

She shares where autonomous driving actually stands today,

what's accelerating the rollout,

what's slowing it down,

and what our cities might look like

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