Methodological problems and misleading title aside, the article did a really poor job of explaining why there appears to be some kind of unexpected increase in

Methodological problems and misleading title aside, the article did a really poor job of explaining why there appears to be some kind of unexpected increase in pedestrian fatality rates. The only putative causes specifically mentioned were more even temporal distribution of traffic and increase in reckless driving, but no data were provided to support these assertions. It’s a BS article. (Tongue-in-cheek) maybe it was written by ChatGPT.