Cars are the real "American carnage". There were 40,000 deaths from traffic accidents in 2016. MIT estimates another 53,000 from traffic pollution[1]. That's mo

Cars are the real "American carnage". There were 40,000 deaths from traffic accidents in 2016. MIT estimates another 53,000 from traffic pollution[1]. That's more than 5 times as many as the number of homicides. [1] http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-early-deaths-each-year-in-the-us-0829 http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...