Originally Posted by
gerv
You know something struck me about this, looking at the numbers... There are roughly 70 million more people in 06 then in 75, and you'd assume proportionately more drivers. The number of associated fatalities, you'd think, would go up. There were actually less in 2006 then in 1975, by a small number (2k).
This probably just has to do with advances in car safety and road safety measures, but worth noting and I do so even though it disagrees with my position on cars: I am highly suspicious of our ability to regularly and safely operate a 4k pound steel rhino at cheetah speeds mere feet from one another.
Anyway, just an interesting footnote to that data, which I found pretty alarming.