Nice article. https://ourworldindata.org https://ourworldindata.org is quite good as well, often indicating we've made massive improvements despite populist tho

Nice article. https://ourworldindata.org https://ourworldindata.org is quite good as well, often indicating we've made massive improvements despite populist thought that we're living in bad times, nostalgia for the past, a la make xyz great again. Too bad they didn't express the data as a rate every time like say traffic deaths. UK population grew from about 50m to 65m, or 30%. Even if all the absolute data showed flat graphs, as an individual you'd still be substantially better off. This invites other questions: are we driving safer, or just doing it less. There's data for that too, surely. A quick peek seems to show total traffic in 2012 was 10x that of 1949, and that average miles per person at least grew until the 1990s [0]. In short, these graphs probably severely understate improvements to traffic safety in general, and reductions in danger from traffic to each individual in the UK. [0] https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/transport/POST-briefing-on-peak-car.pdf https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/trans...