What happened to US life expectancy?

Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by akgerber on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:51PM (#7019435)

Another big difference in the American way of life is that, in most cities, we've managed to engineer a wholly car-dependent transportation system, such that the average American walks half as much people in other countries: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/the-pedometer-test-...

All that driving also puts the average American at huge risk for dying young in a car crash.

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by saraid216 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:11PM (#7019573)

Not even a car crash.

http://www.kidsandcars.org/back-overs.html#Studies

One of my more memorable events back when I lived in a suburban cul-de-sac as a teenager was walking home from school and finding a neighbor's 4-year-old stumbling into the street, blind with tears. Her mom hadn't noticed that she wasn't in the car when she drove out.

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by robin_reala on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:12PM (#7019576)

Especially as US driving tests are anecdotally much easier than tests in other developed countries. [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/oct/11/brita...

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by Zigurd on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @04:38PM (#7020146)

The proverbial two-edged sword there.

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by DanBC on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:21PM (#7019631)

As well as lack of exercise and increased risk of accident is the problem of air pollution, which kills a significant number of people.

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