zIn
2004, in just the United States:
y6,181,000
police-reported traffic accidents
x42,636
people killed
x2,788,000
people injured
x4,281,000
had property damage only
y~
$500 billion (that’s half a trillion dollars …)
in annual economic
cost
x200
times greater than even an extravagant estimate of the nation’s
annual investment in computing research