&gt; here were about 36 000 traffic fatalities in the US in 2015<p>&gt; nobody has a solution to fix the problem today.<p>You&#x27;re entire premise revolves around 0.01% of the population. That&#x27;s not a good basis.<p>There&#x27;s about 34,000 automobile related deaths annually in the US[1]. There&#x27;s about 323,000,000 people in the US.[2]<p>The point I&#x27;m making, is let&#x27;s not get carried away with exaggerating how &quot;bad&quot; a &quot;problem&quot; is. According to the CDC, more people die annually from accidental poisoning (about 39,000) than automobile related accidents - but I don&#x27;t hear all the calls to &quot;solve&quot; that problem.<p>Will things be &quot;safer&quot; written in Rust? Maybe. Does Rust solve everything? Absolutely not. Yes, a lot of bugs are &quot;unsafe&quot; memory access issues, but a lot of bugs are not. Re-writing everything in a pet language that happens to be popular today in 2016 is not a good call. Rust is fairly new, and nobody has any idea if it will stand the test of time. C has, clearly.<p>Instead of getting out our pitchforks, we should rally to guarantee these critical projects are fully funded and staffed with full time developers. That alone, will yield far greater results than some lofty goal of completely re-writing 100&#x27;s of thousands of lines of code which have been working, tested, and matured for almost 3 decades.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;fastats&#x2F;accidental-injury.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;fastats&#x2F;accidental-injury.htm</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;popclock&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;popclock&#x2F;</a>