Re:Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
by thallium205 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @05:32PM
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Pretty ridiculous to not measure deaths per some unit of distance traveled.
Re:Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
by bobbylarrybobby on Monday September 02, 2024 @12:10AM
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Eh, you really want per unit of economic productivity or similar, since driving is not in and of itself productive. For instance, you could get the numbers to look better simply by having people circle the block in their neighborhood (presumably a very safe form of driving).
Based on fatalities per 100k persons (not a great statistic but the one quoted in this thread), and 2022 data, then nope. Every single state is worse than Germany.
Even District of Columbia - basically a city with much less reason to drive - manages a worse score than Germany as a whole.
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...