Theyâre set to have one of the biggest impacts on public health ever. BEC CREW. A new report has analysed the impact of driverless cars on the incidence of fatal traffic accidents, and say that simply by taking human emotions and errors out of the equation, we could reduce deaths on the road by 90 percent.ack in May, we reported that four of the 48 driverless cars the road in California had been in accidents over the past six months. One in 12 might seem like a lot, but the technology itself wasnât at fault-it was the humans around it who were messing up.
How Much Does A Postage Stamp Cost For 2017. Effective January 22, 2017 the cost of a first class (1) ounce letter sent through the United States Post Office increased two cents from $0.47 to $0.49 for letters mailed within the United States. Reversing the $0.2 price drop from $0.49 to $0.47 effective April 10, 2016.
Postal Service seeks 50-cent stamp prices. Mired in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service is warning it will lose as much as $18.2 billion a year by 2015 unless Congress grants it new leeway to eliminate Saturday delivery, slow first-class mail by one day and raise the price of a postage stamp by as much as 5 cents..S. Postal Service lifts stamp price by 1 cent. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced on Tuesday a one-cent increase in the cost of mailing a letter, starting in January. The new prices lift the cost of a first-class stamp to 45 cents starting on January 22, 2012, the first increase in more than two years.