The amount of road-deaths in the US has been steadily falling, thanks to improvements in safety features for cars, including crumple zones, air bags, and ABS. But we are at the beginning of a step-change that will drastically reduce the amount of crashes, and therefore deaths, in the coming years – but one that will take many years to trickle down into the marketplace. Today’s current level of around 32,000 deaths on US roads per year equates to around 10 deaths per 100,000 people living in the US. That’s down from around 54,000 in 1973 (or 25 deaths per 100,000), but the advent of autonomous vehicles is expected to drive this figure to historic lows. This new generation of cars…