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Motor vehicle deaths per year: 30,000 Train deaths per year: 300

• Aloha 9y ago
  How do you get somewhere if you live 80 miles from the nearest railhead then?
  • myhf 9y ago
    Bus deaths per year: 30
• majormajor 9y ago
  Another way to spin it: about 1 percent of deaths in the US.[0][1] Note also that the raw count (and thus presumably the percentage, even more so) has been trending downward for about 40 years. In other words, we're already working on it and making headway. And for the 9/11 comparison hysteria: note the 30x difference between 3000 deaths in a day and under 100. If a million people a year were dying from motor vehicles, I think we'd be doing even more than we already are. Many cities are investing in transit. Many companies are investing in self-driving tech. Tons of improvements in safety and driver-assist technology have already been made. What gives people the impression that we simply don't care and aren't doing anything? [0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_05.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_05.pdf [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...