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What is the per capita rate adjusted for vehicle weight and miles driven?
by hindsightbias 3y ago
What is the per capita rate adjusted for vehicle weight and miles driven?
- calt 3y agoI would find the deaths per miles walked to be even more interesting. We drive a lot so that number would be low, but if we’re dying quite a lot for how little we walk, that would be extremely telling of how bad the problem is.
- smtpete 3y agoBased on us distance data from https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles, europe distance data from and death rates from https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813435 https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... for US, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1331134/road-traffic-fatalities-germany/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1331134/road-traffic-fat... for germany, and https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240414/fatalities-in-traffic-accidents-in-norway/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240414/fatalities-in-tr... for norway It looks like in 2021 the death rate per km driven: US is 42,939deaths/5,349,230 million miles = 0.0050 deaths per million km Germany (2020) 2,719 deaths/718056 million kilometers = 0.0039 deaths per million km Norway 80 deaths/68232 million kilometers = 0.0012 deaths per million km It certainly looks better for the US than it does when looking at deaths per capita, or deaths per vehicle. Though US still looks bad. You could argue US driving way more per capita is might also be due to bad design that makes for more traffic deaths
- hindsightbias 3y agoThx for the research. Presumably most pedestrian deaths are urban and cities with European densities here have high rates so still bad design.