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Cars are dramatically safer for passengers than they used to be. Miles per death isn’t reflective of the skill/attentiveness levels of drivers. As the sibling
by macintux 3y ago
Cars are dramatically safer for passengers than they used to be. Miles per death isn’t reflective of the skill/attentiveness levels of drivers.
As the sibling comment points out, miles driven per death for pedestrians isn’t necessarily being improved by the mass and visibility and safety factors.
- dekhn 3y agoI believe my numbers include pedestrians, based on the definitions I can see.
- macintux 3y agoHere’s a detailed breakdown (although no deaths/mile figures). Proportional to population, pedestrian fatalities have risen significantly since 2010. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedestrians https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
- dekhn 3y agoIt has deaths/mile, in that they provide deaths, and we know the miles. I do not disagree the numbers are trending up (although, I believe rates/miles driven might show a different story, but I didn't grab the miles driven for years 1975-2021 to normalize). Americans drive 400 MILLION miles before a pedestrian death. Let that sink in. 400 million miles per ped death. That's just absolutely gob-smacking amazingly good for something involving direct human control of an enormous ton+ vehicle.