Re:Nhtsa: Car crashes cost Americans $340B, or $1,035 per pe...
by refurb on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:21PM
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Canada has more deaths per mile driven at 5.1, than the US at 1.5.
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...
Re:Nhtsa: Car crashes cost Americans $340B, or $1,035 per pe...
by bfung on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:35PM
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Your other comment about “accidents and deaths per mile driven.” is likely the right metric of the idea I was trying to convey!
Re:Nhtsa: Car crashes cost Americans $340B, or $1,035 per pe...
by morepork on Sunday June 25, 2023 @03:13AM
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Canada is 5.1 deaths per billion km.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...
USA is 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles from your link. That's about 9.3 deaths per billion km.
Other comparable countries would be Australia and New Zealand which have 5.2 and 7.2 deaths per billion km respectively.
USA is still well behind on that metric.
Just north of the border in Canada?
> While U.S. road deaths rose 19 percent between 2010 and 2020, the Canadian figure fell at almost the same pace. That means that around 118 in every million Americans died in a crash in 2020, 2.5 times more than the 46 of every million Canadians who died in the same year.
* https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/why-do-canadian-traffic-de...
> While US road deaths are skyrocketing (including the fastest increase on record in 2021), virtually all other developed countries have seen a decline. In France, for example, traffic fatalities are now just a third of the US per capita rate. As Urban Institute researcher Yonah Freemark recently told me, 30 years ago the streets of France were more dangerous than those in the US, but “today the average French person is 40% safer than the average American.”
> It might seem easy to dismiss transportation comparisons between the US and France, a country smaller than the state of Texas where many streets were designed centuries before the automobile arrived. But what about looking at a North American cousin — Canada, a sprawling, car-oriented nation whose cities are comparably young and similarly configured?
* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-01/why-canad...