From PC Magazine:

But if autonomous vehicles do reduce automobile deaths by 90 percent, this could have a dramatic and serious impact on the organ donor program. As Slate noted in December, “it’s morbid, but the truth is that due to limitations on who can [donate organs], among the most reliable sources for healthy organs and tissues are the more than 35,000 people killed each year on American roads. Currently, 1 in 5 organ donations come from the victim of a vehicular accident.”

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