> Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S.1, with over 100 people dying every day.
Motor vehicle crashes are slightly outside the top ten causes of death. Those 100+ deaths are coming out of about 9300 total deaths.
> The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with occupant injuries and deaths from motor vehicle traffic crashes exceeded $75 Billion.
Productivity losses are outside the scope of medical costs, but even if we include those dollars that's $75B out of $4100B in health care spending.
So I stand by my statement that it's a pretty small impact.
> American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card says only 45% of the US population has no access to public transit.
And most of the other 55% still need cars.
You said "good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure" and that's what I responded to. We can go ahead and remove the word "subway", but the fraction of people with access to good public transit systems is pretty small.
Motor vehicle crashes are slightly outside the top ten causes of death. Those 100+ deaths are coming out of about 9300 total deaths.
> The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with occupant injuries and deaths from motor vehicle traffic crashes exceeded $75 Billion.
Productivity losses are outside the scope of medical costs, but even if we include those dollars that's $75B out of $4100B in health care spending.
So I stand by my statement that it's a pretty small impact.
> American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card says only 45% of the US population has no access to public transit.
And most of the other 55% still need cars.
You said "good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure" and that's what I responded to. We can go ahead and remove the word "subway", but the fraction of people with access to good public transit systems is pretty small.