<story><title>Why you&apos;ve never been in a plane crash</title><url>https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chmod600</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.&lt;p&gt;What happened in the last five years? Safety features of the cars themselves are improving (emergency braking). Alcohol may be a factor, but why in the last five years? Cars have been big for a while. WFH probably reduced commuting time. Other countries appear to be on the decline.</text></item><item><author>nayuki</author><text>Great article. I agree a lot with the safety culture in commercial aviation and the commitment to investigate and fix root causes.&lt;p&gt;Now can we please apply the same standards to car crashes? The same human errors and bad infrastructure keep getting repeated over and over again. And the problems are getting worse, with SUVs and distracted driving on the rise.&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;fuckcars&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;fuckcars&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; for a community that is sounding the alarm on the insidiousness of car culture. Or see these reasonable urbanists if you think FuckCars is too extreme: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@OhTheUrbanity&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@OhTheUrbanity&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@NotJustBikes&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@NotJustBikes&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@CityNerd&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@CityNerd&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scoofy</author><text>One current theory is speed (citation below).&lt;p&gt;Ironically, heavy traffic is one of the better &amp;quot;safety features&amp;quot; of our automobile transportation system. Since crowded roads are higher-conflict roads, there is a bit of luck in the fact that traffic slows down when it gets crowded. There may be more collisions, but they are less deadly.&lt;p&gt;Suddenly there is a pandemic, and there are orders of magnitude fewer people on the roads. The number of collisions goes down, but the number of deaths goes up, because all of the collisions are at higher, deadlier speeds.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here&amp;#x27;s Why.&lt;/i&gt; by Charles Marohn&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&amp;#x2F;journal&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;driving-went-down-fatalities-went-up-heres-why&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&amp;#x2F;journal&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;driving-went-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Why you&apos;ve never been in a plane crash</title><url>https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chmod600</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.&lt;p&gt;What happened in the last five years? Safety features of the cars themselves are improving (emergency braking). Alcohol may be a factor, but why in the last five years? Cars have been big for a while. WFH probably reduced commuting time. Other countries appear to be on the decline.</text></item><item><author>nayuki</author><text>Great article. I agree a lot with the safety culture in commercial aviation and the commitment to investigate and fix root causes.&lt;p&gt;Now can we please apply the same standards to car crashes? The same human errors and bad infrastructure keep getting repeated over and over again. And the problems are getting worse, with SUVs and distracted driving on the rise.&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;fuckcars&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;fuckcars&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; for a community that is sounding the alarm on the insidiousness of car culture. Or see these reasonable urbanists if you think FuckCars is too extreme: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@OhTheUrbanity&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@OhTheUrbanity&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@NotJustBikes&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@NotJustBikes&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@CityNerd&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@CityNerd&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bostonpete</author><text>&amp;gt; TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.&lt;p&gt;Per your link, fatalities per mile drive bottomed out in 2014 and barely dropped after 2010. There&amp;#x27;s been some speculation that this reversal in safety was tied to the rise of smartphones and a corresponding increase of distracted driving.</text></comment>