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It looks like the author has a link to this study as a PDF: http://www.justintyndall.com/uploads/2/8/5/5/28559839/tyndall_pedestrian.pdf http://www.justintynda

• throwawaysea 5y ago
  Thanks for sharing the study - the original link just goes to a login screen for me. I haven't read the study fully but the main conclusion is that converting every light truck (SUV, pickup, minivan) in the country to a (smaller) car would save around 800 lives a year. That seems like a very small number in the grand scheme of things. The value of a life in the US used in mortality analyses is something like $7 million - which for 800 lives is $5.6B. The market for light trucks is far bigger than that - even just one model like the F-150 generates something like $50B in revenue a year. What this means is that people are deriving vastly more value from the presence of light trucks than the loss we see from them.