Interesting piece! There seems to be a correlation between the safety of a road and how annoying it is for drivers to move through it: the more you have to actively engage with your surroundings, the less likely you are to end up in a severe crash. Roundabouts are the perfect example of this.
Here's another angle to the problem. Who carries the financial burden of accident-related medical costs? All of the non-US countries listed in the article have a universal healthcare system that is primarily paid for with public money, and there is a stronger incentive to do prevention by improving the infrastructure. This might be one of the factors plausibly explaining the US's lag in road safety
This is such an amazing article that I have to comment.
If it's true that America stands at 12.8 traffic-related deaths per 100K people, then that's an *insanely high* rate. To put it in context, it's literally *worst than crime-related murders*, which stand at 7.8 murders per 100K people by 2022 (https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-the-highest-murder-rates/). Some commentators affirm that at 10 deaths per 100K people, the situation should be considered a "crime epidemic" and treated like a public health emergency.
How come there is *not* an anti-traffic-deaths movement in America (and, for that matter, the rest of the world) such as there was in the Netherlands and Sweden? Why are we so blind to the deaths that our cities cause?
Not normalizing to per-mile driven in the opening paragraph made it difficult to trust this piece. You're using a MSM tactic
Interesting piece! There seems to be a correlation between the safety of a road and how annoying it is for drivers to move through it: the more you have to actively engage with your surroundings, the less likely you are to end up in a severe crash. Roundabouts are the perfect example of this.
Here's another angle to the problem. Who carries the financial burden of accident-related medical costs? All of the non-US countries listed in the article have a universal healthcare system that is primarily paid for with public money, and there is a stronger incentive to do prevention by improving the infrastructure. This might be one of the factors plausibly explaining the US's lag in road safety
This is such an amazing article that I have to comment.
If it's true that America stands at 12.8 traffic-related deaths per 100K people, then that's an *insanely high* rate. To put it in context, it's literally *worst than crime-related murders*, which stand at 7.8 murders per 100K people by 2022 (https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-the-highest-murder-rates/). Some commentators affirm that at 10 deaths per 100K people, the situation should be considered a "crime epidemic" and treated like a public health emergency.
How come there is *not* an anti-traffic-deaths movement in America (and, for that matter, the rest of the world) such as there was in the Netherlands and Sweden? Why are we so blind to the deaths that our cities cause?