I’m open to the possibility that it’s just me being more aware/sensitive to how people are driving around me too. And I’m not necessarily talking about drivers I have to interact with myself but just seeing what people are doing in general.
I’m open to the possibility that it’s just me being more aware/sensitive to how people are driving around me too. And I’m not necessarily talking about drivers I have to interact with myself but just seeing what people are doing in general.
Traffic fatalities in the U.S. have been pegged at 40,000 per year for decades, in spite of the number of drivers going up every year. So, by that broad statistic, things have been improving.
More people, the stagnant stat looks good. Safer cars, the stagnant stat looks bad. Collisions that have nearly always been non-fatal, the stagnant stat is irrelevant. It’d take actual numbers on the two uncertainties to really know how to feel about the steadiness of raw fatalities
question, is the 40k deaths related to the square meter of road availability? if we increased the amount of roads drastically wouldn’t that increase fatalities?
when an accident happens, traffic slows and most drivers become more aware of their surroundings. this can lead to other minor fender benders that don’t lead to fatalities and so aren’t tracked within the 40k.
tldr: are the 40k fatalities dependent on the square meter of open road in-which to have a fatal accident?