What we really need to figure out, to fix pedestrian fatalities in the US, is to fix whatever perverse incentives there are that lead to the traffic engineering

What we really need to figure out, to fix pedestrian fatalities in the US, is to fix whatever perverse incentives there are that lead to the traffic engineering practices that make so much of America dangerous to walk in. Optimizing for the ease of driving through places at expense of almost everything else, has lead to a lot of bad outcomes, not just for pedestrian fatalities, but just general livability in the US.