> Prior to mass car ownership you would assume that such things in the general population would be enormously more dangerous than they have proven to be. An as

> Prior to mass car ownership you would assume that such things in the general population would be enormously more dangerous than they have proven to be. An assumption that was correct and involved large-scale propaganda efforts to blame pedestrians for the harm inflicted upon them, including blaming children for their own deaths. U.S. car accident fatalities are also still to this day at developing country levels and every actually developed country largely has public transportation infrastructure. And this is before we get into the blight that is American urban design, evolving to serve the needs of this mass car ownership, with all its down stream environmental harms.