Re:Why can't the government put a limit on car sizes?
by kodah on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:55AM
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> There were 35,766 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2020 in which 38,824 deaths occurred. This resulted in 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people and 1.34 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The fatality rate per 100,000 people ranged from 4.9 in Massachusetts to 25.4 in Mississippi. The death rate per 100 million miles traveled ranged from 0.63 in Massachusetts to 1.97 in South Carolina.
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This is just an overall death statistic in cars, not ones where the size of the car was actually to blame for a death. Given such a small number, I think the government can forgo regulation.
Re:Why can't the government put a limit on car sizes?
by kodah on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:09PM
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Yes, at least one of the tables explicitly mentions that the statistics they use cover pedestrian deaths and the whole page is built using that single data set.
Source: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...
This is just an overall death statistic in cars, not ones where the size of the car was actually to blame for a death. Given such a small number, I think the government can forgo regulation.
Edit: Yes this covers pedestrian deaths