This is my understanding as well. Supporting data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mot

This is my understanding as well. Supporting data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in... Note that fatalities per 100M population has not just been trending up, but it is doing so after trending down for many previous years.