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Cars have gotten safer over the years.

Airbags, seatbelts, better engineering.

But as Waymo's co-CEO, Takedra Mawakana, sees it, there's one safety problem the world has been patching around for decades.

Humans.

Nearly 37,000 people died on roads in the U.S.

last year.