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More subtly quality of life decreases need to be accounted for. How many marginal person-years spent in traffic, or on less efficient alternative transport, is
by thereisnospork 7y ago
More subtly quality of life decreases need to be accounted for.
How many marginal person-years spent in traffic, or on less efficient alternative transport, is each road death worth? How many dollars per capita per fatality is appropriate (for e.g. infrastructure improvements.)?[1] Such absolutist and naive policy motives run the strong risk of making society worse, not better.
[1] I make no claim that we are at any optimum value, only that the optimum value is not 'no one dies on the roads, costs be damned'
- joe_the_user 7y agoThe article just doesn't do itself a favor with its headline. The useful point of the article is that the Scandinavian countries are so much less dependent on cars (and so much smaller) that you have years where no one dies by a car hitting pedestrian. But it do better pointing out the overall (considerable) quality of life benefit rather than the factoid - factoid arguments just raise people's hackles these days.