Lost from the cradle of connection: the high price of driving
...ve died in the US in motor vehicle accidents since we invented cars. The chart of this year by year progression is grimly interesting. As is this chart of countries by traffic related death rates. In sum, every year I’ve been alive, an average of 45,000 people have died–in the US alone–simply because they needed to get to work, or school or the store. Why is it acceptable to us that so many people must die just because they needed to get somewhere...
