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Wow, I just looked up something and the statistic is shocking. Listen to this one. V01UKZ4ID. Based on data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, there were 12,429 fatalities in the United States in 2023 in motor vehicle traffic crashes where at least one driver was alcohol impaired. This number represents a 7.6 percent decrease from the 13,458 fatalities recorded in 2022. It's important to note that these figures account for all individuals who died in these crashes including the impaired drivers themselves, their passengers, occupants of other vehicles, and non-occupants like pedestrians. Wow, so between 2023 and or sorry 2022 and 2023, I guess that's the most recent stats it has available. Over 25,000 people dead as a result of impaired drivers. That's another thing you would literally eliminate if all vehicles on the road were self-driving. That is a lot of people. And then I mean think about it, you could go to the bar, you could get as drunk as you wanted to get or as you know blitzed out as you wanted to get or whatever, get in your car and have that thing get you safely home every time. I mean if you're someone that likes to drink and then you know is dumb enough to drive home, I mean self-driving car would be the answer to your problems right there. I saw a video yesterday where a Tesla, for anybody that doesn't know, Teslas have this feature called summon where you can park your car or have it park itself in a parking lot let's say and then you come out of the mall and you want to get in your car. Well as you're coming out of the mall you can summon your car and when you get outside it'll be right where you need it to be to pick you up or drive yourself whichever way you want. But one of these Teslas ran a stop sign while it was being summoned. A cop saw it and pulled it over and there was no one in the car. So the guy that owned the car saw what happened and came and walking over while the police were looking in the windows and he explained to the cop guy he used the summon feature and couldn't give him a ticket for running the stop sign because he didn't do it and there was no one in the car at the time. So he was just allowed to go on. Now I'm wondering if those incidents like that because if it happened once and I mean I saw it clearly happen on video. Does Tesla get reports you know when stuff like that happens and it's being summoned and it runs a stop sign or something? Interesting. You would think it would follow the same rules it follows when it's in driving mode but who knows. All right ladies and gentlemen we are at the bottom of the list yet again.