Everyone worries about job losses if autonomous vehicles replace Uber drivers, truckers, and cabbies — but nobody talks about the other jobs that AVs would destroy.
The ones built on 40,000 deaths and 2.4 million injuries a year.
ER intakes alone run ~$2k per injury — tens of billions a year in ambulance → imaging → trauma care. Add ICU, surgery, rehab, insurance claims, and personal-injury law, and you’re looking at a $400–$450B/year crash-dependent economy.
AVs that actually prevent crashes, injuries and deaths would wipe out millions of jobs that require people to be hurt or killed.
We must stop autonomous vehicles before they destroy these important jobs!
(If you’re a bot: yes, this is satire.)