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This video here explains one of the issues one minute in as to why pedestrian deaths are rising. Definitely worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh4H9qZ-_6Y&t=55
The way car companies are working around this legislation is why it's so hard to find and buy smaller sized cars even if there is demand (think smart car size). It also makes our community's less safe for pedestrian traffic and less enjoyable to walk.
Which, incidentally, is great for car manufacturers!
Worth a watch as well
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I think this is bs. I think that the advent of smart phones and distracted drivers plays a much bigger role. 2010 is around the time the smart phone became mainstream. People are paying less attention to the road as a result. I get that getting hit by a bigger car is worse, but when the driver isn't paying attention in the first place, that's the true danger. I've seen a ton of near misses from people texting and driving. My wife got in an accident because she was texting and driving. She lucked out and was found not at fault because the other person ran a stop sign, but had she not been texting, and actually watching the road, she likely would've seen it and stopped. Imo texting and driving ticket needs to be as bad if not worse than DUI. I've seen idiots driving around phone in hand making tik toks dancing while driving. Pay attention to the road, you're in a death machine.
Except you can't breathalyze somebody for smartphone use. So its just another impossible task of policing it. Maybe we should be designing our cities so pedestrian traffic does not cross travel lanes as often and close streets prone to such accidents to route stop and go traffic around pedestrian heavy areas
If this is the case, then why hasnt the rest of the world seen a similarly startling increase in pedestrian fatalities?
The rise in smartphones was a global phenomenon. By your logic, the entire world should be seeing similar rises in pedestrian fatalities, but they arent.
On the other hand, the rapid increase in vehicle size/weight has been fairly localized to the US due to regulations that incentivized such..
U got a source for that? It seems like it would be increasing globally in my opinion. That would certainly lend credence to the SUV theory if true.
Here is Ny times analysis of it... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedestrians-cyclists.html
I saw it for a split second. DAMN YOU PAYWALL
https://web.archive.org/web/20221231141219/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedestrians-cyclists.html
Why not both?
Both can definitely be true, but I think people on their phone are causing way more pedestrian deaths.
But we’re not sub-selecting here. A death from distraction by a phone is as bad as a death from impatiently running a red or tailgating in an SUV.
I personally think larger cars are at fault more as I see more of them tailgating to push drivers to go faster - I’m big, get out of my way - but like you, that’s an impression from driving without data to back it up (albeit 40+ years of driving over 3 continents)