I heard the car is the deadliest weapon created by humans and that the number of lives it has claimed exceeds the death toll from atomic weapons, guns or bombing. Is this true? And what are the grisly figures involved?rnFirst, we have to assume that this comparison sets automotive fatalities against all uses of weaponry, including acts of war. If that is the case, weapons win hands down.rnThis is for a number of reasons, the first being that, unlike weapons, the automobile was not designed with efficiency of death in mind: most road deaths are accidental. Furthermore, while spears, guns and explosives have been available for centuries, automobiles have only been around for about 120 years. They have only been in mass production for 100 years and accessible to most of the world's population for 60 years.
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