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motor vehicle deaths have always trended down, cars just keep getting safer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year#/media/Fi

• consp 4y ago
  Yet in a lot of countries they don't anymore. Here mostly due to pedestrian and cyclist deaths being counted as motor vehicle deaths due to increasing car size and more km driven per capita.
• ljf 4y ago
  Strange you don't link to the table which tells a different story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in... the deaths per 100,000 population has got worse across the last 10 years.