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mmarollo t1_itx21hk wrote

"Americas"?

Lumping Canada and the US together with central and South America... Maybe not so illuminating.

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SUPRVLLAN t1_itzy5op wrote

…and Western Pacifc is also The US and Canada.

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Wlng-Man t1_ityv40a wrote

Imagine you know 200 people (friends, family, coworkers, etc.). Every year one dies on average.

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Oregon687 t1_itwyopd wrote

Wow, and I thought the US was bad!

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sergeial t1_itx0fye wrote

Yeah, I feel like we could do a lot more and make urban planning choices and regulatory choices that don't see ANY traffic fatalities or mutilations as "just the cost of doing business". But it's important to remember that the developing world needs help with this stuff even moreso

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685327594 t1_itx1t7h wrote

It's pretty easy to reduce road deaths, you just have to get people to slow down. Risk of death increases exponentially with speed. Unfortunately few people are actually on board with stricter enforcement of speed limits. Maybe increasing penalties for texting while driving would work similar to how DUI laws were increased a few decades ago?

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sergeial t1_iu19gny wrote

There's so much that can be done with urban planning to slow people down. We build for speed, not slowness

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