Big Katuna wrote:
The news is click-driven these days, magnified by politically oriented segments.
The big solvable problems like 60,000 dead on our highways that could be solved with better drivers ed and cell phones that don’t transmit while moving, etc don’t get mentioned.
While I agree with your first comment...US traffic deaths peaked back in 1972 at 54,000. There has been a downward trend since...currently in the mid 30,000 range.
Funny thing is if you track the economics of the country, the best thing you can do is kill the economy. 2008 & 2009 you had successive years with 10% reductions. Last couple years there was an increase. But that's mostly a correlation to vehicle miles of travel.
Expect to see an even faster reduction as automated driving features become standard (takes 15-20yrs to roll over the fleet and currently it's only starting to filter into the mid level cars).
