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    Verkehrs Todesfälle sind eine Wahl: Amerikas Straßen sind gefährlicher als die von fast jedem Land in den Industrieländern. Wir wissen, wie wir das ändern können.


    Verkehrs Todesfälle sind eine Wahl: Amerikas Straßen sind gefährlicher als die von fast jedem Land in den Industrieländern. Wir wissen, wie wir das ändern können.

    https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/traffic-fatalities-are-a-choice?utm_source=semafor

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    1. nimicdoareu on

      You are as likely to die driving on an American road as you are driving in Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan. On a per capita basis, the American traffic-related death rate ranks 87th in the world. At 12.8 deaths per 100,000 people, it is double that of Greece, triple that of Austria, and six times more than Japan.

      In 2022, more than 42,000 people died on American roads, and more than two million — 1 in every 170 — required emergency medical care from automobile-related accidents. The total economic cost, in medical expenses and loss of life, amounted to an estimated $470 billion.

      This is not an inevitability. It is a policy decision that the federal and state governments continue to affirm. Indeed, if the United States had matched the rate of improvement in road safety since the 1970s seen in, for example, the Netherlands, Sweden, or Spain, it would have prevented 2 out of every 3 road deaths, saving 25,000 lives last year alone.

    3. meowingcauliflower on

      This is like saying that depression is a choice. Terribly stupid rhetoric.

    4. Incolumis on

      Just look up on YouTube how it works in the Netherlands and learn from that.

    5. confusedguy1212 on

      Finally some talk about American road infrastructure and how inferior it is!

      For us speed limits start and end in the sign posted, pedestrians and cyclists are not real people but merely a nuisance.

    6. Munkeyman18290 on

      We can all thank Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, and Joeseph McCarthy for all of this. Between the 3 of them and their cohorts, they managed to convince the country that anything other than hyper-focused capitalism was icky socialism, or even the evil C-word; communism.

      And here we are, home of the billionaire, land of the rotting decrepit infrastructure. America is an extravagant mansion complete with all the nicest bells and whistles sitting on land that is slowly dissolving into the ocean.

    8. In9e on

      Get rid of speed limits.

      I drive in Germany at full speed very concentrated.
      Never do alcohol or drugs cuz that would be 100 % death.

      It’s safer then locked to 80 mph I start doing different things in my car then just Fokus on driving.

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