The Accident-Free Generation Emerges—And They’re Psychologically Different

By Futurist Thomas Frey

Children born in 2025 will come of age in a world without car crashes. By 2040, traffic fatalities in the United States will have fallen by 99.4%—from 40,000 annual deaths to fewer than 250, most of them in remote rural areas involving the last surviving legacy vehicles. These children will grow up never seeing roadside memorials, never hearing the screech of tires or the wail of an ambulance rushing to an intersection. They’ll never watch a parent tense up when another car drifts too close. For them, accidents will be myths—artifacts of a primitive, error-prone past. But this isn’t just a technological milestone—it’s a psychological revolution.

Continue reading… “The Accident-Free Generation Emerges—And They’re Psychologically Different”