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Citation 1 does not support the claim that the USA "sucks at road safety" -- only a handful of the countries listed actually have a statistic for deaths per km
by dingnuts 3y ago
Citation 1 does not support the claim that the USA "sucks at road safety" -- only a handful of the countries listed actually have a statistic for deaths per km traveled, which is the metric that matters (since the USA is much less dense than many of the countries it's being compared to, its citizens drive farther).
The US is right in the middle -- doing better than the Czech Republic and South Korea -- on the metric that matters on the page you linked, but really, more data is needed because the metric you want to look at is mostly missing from the table.
- actionfromafar 3y agoBut the US designed the infra to make you go many more kilometers by car to even buy some groceries.
- genman 3y agoYes, and US has therefore more traffic deaths by design.
- genman 3y agoIf we compare US to Germany that has 1000s of km without any speed restrictions then it has roughly 2 times less deaths. Even France, where people drive like they have a death wish has 1/3 less deaths. It is even slightly higher than Belgium that is the only Western European country where I have experienced potholes on highway. Perhaps US is not strictly sucking at it but it is as such clearly on the high side.