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Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? After decades of declining fatality rates, dangerous driving has surged again. (www.nytimes.com)
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The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. Conversely, seatbelt use was down, resulting in thousands of injuries to unrestrained drivers and passengers. After a decade of steady decline, intoxicated-driving arrests had rebounded to near historic highs.

... The relationship between car size and injury rates is still being studied, but early research on the American appetite for horizon-blotting machinery points in precisely the direction you’d expect: The bigger the vehicle, the less visibility it affords, and the more destruction it can wreak.

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[-] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah...usually the statistical methodology has changed to suit someone's agenda, when you read shit like this.

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[-] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

While I agree 99% of people are fucking morons I am curious about something. I've been driving for awhile now and I've noticed that since 2019 it has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY worse. I'm curious if the increase in awful drivers is in anyway related to the current economy. We have nearly everyone working multiple jobs to stay afloat. Could this be causing people to be more reckless from a mix of exhaustion and the fact they feel forced to take risks and drive in order to maintain their relationships since they don't have time to do it any other way? I am in no way justifying this behavior I'm merely just interested in if this is in anyway related. I really can't express just how bad drivers have gotten in such a short span of time.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We're practically a trustless country at this point. Lack of trust in others as well as government is highly correlated with aggressive shit driving.

In addition, as an often aggressive driver, boy is it irritating to be driving amongst the zombies that are all going 45 on the highway in the middle lane because they're all staring at their phones.

[-] beepbooprobot@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's Mobile phones

[-] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We’ve had those for a minute. It’s not new.

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