On: I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century

[blackeyeblitzar]

12.9 still seems very low to me. What makes the lower number better? I wouldn’t want the difference between 12.9 and 7.4 if it means I need to give up on driving cars and take slow inconvenient public transit or be limited to where public transit takes me. Cars are freedom.

I would also argue the US is more successful than literally every other country in part because of fast road infrastructure. So maybe they’re all just making the wrong tradeoff.

[ajuc → blackeyeblitzar]

> What makes the lower number better?

~20 000 fewer people dying per year.

> I wouldn’t want the difference between 12.9 and 7.4 if it means I need to give up on driving cars

You don't need to give up driving cars. People do drive cars outside USA.

> slow inconvenient public transit

When it's done right it's more convenient than cars. I own a car and I drive under 3000 km per year because I just barely need it.

> I would also argue the US is more successful

The only metric I can think of where this is true is military, which does not seem relevant :)

[abenga → blackeyeblitzar]

> I wouldn’t want the difference between 12.9 and 7.4

Do you volunteer to be one of the 5.5 in your slice of 100K?