Not only have the vehicles gotten bigger, but the conservatives have purposely pushed vehicular homicide as something that is acceptable for groups like protesters. Just mention a "liberal" blocking the road to any conservative to have them quickly quip that they would run them over.

Normalizing vehicular homicide is totally a reflection of our safe and sane car culture in the US.

I wonder why

How the F did US jumped up in 2020? Did the cars start to run into buildings to make up for the diferance in pedestrian trafic?

I went to America for the first time a year and a half ago. The biggest culture shock was definitely the horrible infrastructure. Second to that was the amount of dogs that weren't trained at all.

People talk a lot about feeling unsafe in areas like Tenderloin in SF, but being near any of the dumb, giant car traffic made me feel way more unsafe.

As someone without a car in the US, I am obviously pro-urban pedestrian infrastructure. We need more and better busses, and far more walking / biking options that keep us away from cars entirely. If you can't walk from any one place to any other in a city, that's two or more cities in a trench coat, you know?

I do wonder what a graph of average driven hours would do to this chart. Per 100,000 people of course shows more are dying per person. But if US citizens drive twice the total hours(completely made up number) as those in other countries, then we would actually have less pedestrian deaths per driven hour no?

The US is de-civilizing itself out of frustration

Terrible street design which prioritizes speed of cars over the safety of the community. The rich and selfish get to kill everyone else so they don't have to wait a bit longer crossing town.

Added bonus: the cars also pollute the fuck out of your home in the process.

It's interesting to me that Italians have such a terrible reputation for being dangerous on the roads, and even at the start of the graph period they had lower pedestrian fatalities than the USA.

Hostile, selfish, and distracted drivers

I remember when roundabouts started to proliferate in the last 10-15 years and how there's an uproar every time a town builds a new one... but clearly it's an imperative to design roads in a way that is deliberately inconvenient and forces carbrains to fucking pay attention.

Just for a better understanding, it would ve interested to see how the share of pedestrians developed in that time. Did decrease, remain similar or even increase?

US is really crushing it!

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