Something that seems to be absent here is a discussion of turn-right-on-red laws. In conjunction with the SUV hypothesis of increasingly deadly vehicles (in con

Something that seems to be absent here is a discussion of turn-right-on-red laws. In conjunction with the SUV hypothesis of increasingly deadly vehicles (in conjunction with the trend of modern cars having increasingly huge A-pillars which inhibit visibility), the existence of such laws could explain the US as an outlier, the urban/rural difference, and the anomaly of NYC, where right-on-red has been banned since 1977.