This might be true in Canada too? I thought the death rate was related to the size of the vehicles preferred by the drivers in the measured region. And nobody likes ‘em bigger than Americans. And may Canadians, from what I’ve seen.
YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers
Submitted 14 hours ago by Wulsko@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedestrians-cyclists.html
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some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
How are other countries on drivers not being on their cell phones or watching their phones\browsing? The US is terrible about it. It’s not legal most places, but it’s also not very enforced. I figured that was a bigger cause than the rise in vehicle size.
Griffus@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
In Norway, even though we have a lot of larger SUV’s driving around, being caught on mobile is very pricy and police controls are very regular.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I’ve seen a few other factors that might contribute to increased pedestrian/cyclist deaths on our roads:
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e-Bikes. e-Bikes are mostly a goddamn mistake. The ones that don’t make the bike go any faster than you yourself can pedal it, just make pushing the pedals easier? Those are fine. Anything else should be classified as a moped, and I don’t know why they aren’t. People are riding them at 20+ miles per hour on sidewalks and getting backed into out of blind driveways that weren’t designed with traffic that speed on the sidewalk. Plus you’ve just got more people on 2-wheelers mixing with car traffic, which is a game they lost at the character select screen.
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Half-assed attempts by DMVs to add bike lanes and walking paths. All the squawking about walkable cities this and fuck cars that you bots have been bitching about has been heard. In my area, where new housing developments or shopping centers are going in, the DOT now requires bike lanes and sidewalks in such places. They connect to nowhere because the main roads aren’t all being modified to add such features, not until they need major modifications themselves. So you’ll see bikes and pedestrians on highways they didn’t used to appear on.
Another problem I’ve seen is the mixing of bike lanes and turn lanes. Our roads have long been built such that any lane that is allowed to turn right does not have lanes that can go straight to their right. So if you have the right of way to turn right, by green circle or green right arrow signal, it is logically safe for the driver to proceed. Until they added bike lanes to the extreme outside next to the curb. We didn’t add signals for these bike lanes, they’re supposed to follow the same signals as cars. So. You’re sitting at a red light with your right turn signal on. It turns solid green. You go. The cyclist overtaking you in the bike lane also saw the light turn green, he tries to go straight, he is crushed to death under your right rear tire. This didn’t used to be a problem, it is now.
- Walkers and bikers be out here going full retard. My neighborhood is a grid system full of stop signs. There are two North-South streets a couple blocks apart where all the stop signs are crossing, so these are main thoroughfares through town. Cars go the posted speed limit of 35 along there. Between these two streets is another that has stop signs on most blocks. Cars don’t tend to travel down that road because they constantly have to stop. Guess where everyone decides to walk and bike? EVERYWHERE EXCEPT THE ROAD WITH NO CAR TRAFFIC. People go out of their way to play in traffic. I guess you can’t earn a living by getting a job anymore, so you’ve got to get your pelvis crushed to have your day in court.
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frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Yeah but I get to go 90-100 MPH between metro areas in my SUV now that the speed limit is 80-85 max. I fully accept that death might be involved.
sniggleboots@europe.pub 2 hours ago
I’m sure the people you risk killing find your acceptance very noble.
grue@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pathetic compared to 150+ mph train. You don’t even fucking realize how much of a backwards, loser country we’re in.
spongebue@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’m going to guess that those highways between metro areas, especially where speeds like that are even feasible (highest speed limit in the US is 85) are so remote and sparsely traveled that that’s not where the deaths are happening.
Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Post critical of the United States ✅
OP’s post history is generally anti-USA ✅
OP’s comment history = 0 ✅
Boy I sure wonder why you post on Lemmy… /s
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
You say all of those things as if it were specific to anti-USA posting. Lemmy is ripe and full of anti-China and anti-Russia AstroTurf-seeming accounts:
A post a week ago made a brief list of some accounts (not complete by any means)
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Uh huh. Yeah okay.
We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You shouldn’t be downvoted, this is yet another account that posts likely for sentiment shaping and immediately deletes their account. This sub is awash with it. I get that there’s a lot to dump on in regards to the US now more than ever but I’d really prefer it be organic posts from people who actually want to engage in the fediverse in good faith rather than whatever the fuck this manipulative bullshit is
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Should people… Not be critical? There’s always been so much glazing of the US throughout history
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s not that they’re being critical, it’s that someone is being shady with some sort of motive. I don’t want the fediverse to get ruined with narrative attack bs, I want to talk to real humans who aren’t trying to manipulate me. If I was cool with that I’d just go back to Reddit.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The poster’s account is about a day old. For more context. (Voyager shows you an icon and age when accounts are new. Just like Apollo did)
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Critical of bots? Yes. Among other things.
qarbone@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Throughout history? Whose?
The USA’s international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.
It’s not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Lmao they deleted the entire account when called out. Sketchy af.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 hours ago
huh!
shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And… deleted.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Good! These post are a good reminder that this isn’t reddit.
Don’t like it? You can go back to US propaganda sites.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t see the benefit of replacing US propaganda with anti-US propaganda.