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A lot of it, maybe most of it, is just bad urban design that favors driver convenience and speed over everything else. We designed our roads to be dangerous an
by TulliusCicero 2y ago
A lot of it, maybe most of it, is just bad urban design that favors driver convenience and speed over everything else.
We designed our roads to be dangerous and now they're dangerous.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoThey’re not dangerous. There’s about 1 fatality for every 100 million miles driven, if I recall. That’s REALLY low and it is getting lower as safety features like automatic braking become ubiquitous.
- TulliusCicero 2y agoIt is dangerous. The US has a per capita fatality rate substantially higher than most of its developed peers. Some 40,000 people die from traffic fatalities in the US every year, and it's one of the top killers for children.
- TulliusCicero 2y agoI didn't have time to check when I wrote this comment, but looking now, the US rate looks like it's usually more than double that of major developed peers, and in some cases more than 3x as high. Fatalities per 100k inhabitants: South Korea - 5.3 Japan - 2.1 Italy - 5.2 UK - 2.9 Germany - 3.7 France - 5.0 Canada - 5.3 # USA - 12.9 The US actually does about the same as Mexico (12.8) despite being enormously richer and generally more developed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...
- TulliusCicero 2y agoAlso, note that "per how many miles driven" is a deflection used by pro-car-dominance folks. Part of the problem in the US is precisely that the transportation system compels people to drive so much, and looking at fatalities per distance traveled obscures that danger.