Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps

Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by m_mueller on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:37AM (#12964777)

Also, just look at that graph they posted (can't be linked to because the labels are not included in the png file). Biggest spike in 50 years? More like a minor blip in a steady downwards trend.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by varjag on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:21AM (#12966087)

That blip is probably thousands of dead people.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by zaroth on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:26AM (#12966106)

That graph is probably millions of dead people.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by varjag on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:15AM (#12966308)

There were 1.25 million estimated road fatalities worldwide in 2015, so a 1% blip would amount to 12.5 thousand. So yes this blip represents very real entirely avoidable deaths, as the offset of the traditional downward trend suggests.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by zaroth on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:34PM (#13017879)

Who said anything about worldwide fatalities? Apples and oranges.

"Entirely avoidable" is a strange term in this context. All 1.25 million deaths were technically avoidable, but not without causing significantly worse harm, suffering, and death instead.

We don't actually know what caused the increase, right now we're just speculating.

Now, the NHTSA puts a $6.0 million price tag on the economic value of preventing a US traffic fatality, and based on that figure we prevent as much as we can.

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