Incredibly misleading title/premise. Should be titled: "Traffic deaths slightly spike, but remain lower than 2008 or any other year after 1956." It has increa

Incredibly misleading title/premise. Should be titled: "Traffic deaths slightly spike, but remain lower than 2008 or any other year after 1956." It has increased slightly since 2011, but less than 10%. What we might be seeing is that vehicle deaths has plateaued. We kept seeing decreases because technology kept being introduced (e.g. seat belts, air bags, ABS brakes, crumple zones, partial overlap resistance, safety cages, better safety testing, etc). That kind of slowed at the end of the 2000s and is now picking up again (e.g. automatic braking, lane keep assist, blind spot warning, cross traffic alert, backup cameras, full automation, etc). The whole article is trying to manufacture a story out of statistical noise. We'd need more data (more years) to even start to speculate on an actual increase in deaths.