Road Safety is NOT Your Responsibility

North America has the deadliest streets out of any developed nation. We try to address this by putting the full responsibility on individuals, using police enforcement and public safety campaigns. While it is good to be conscious of your own safety, we must also consider the fundamental design flaw in American traffic engineering; how we design streets solely for the speed of vehicles while safety is neglected.

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➜ References & Further Reading:
NHTSA Data
www.nhtsa.gov/data

Pedestrian deaths at highest levels since the 80s
www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-2…

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (book)
www.confessions.engineer/

To End Drunk Driving, We Must Disincentivize Driving
   • To End Drunk Driving, We Must Disincentivi...  

Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
   • Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (b...  

The Invention of Jaywalking
www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

Mothers Against Drunk Driving Should Also Be Against Zoning
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/1/11/mothers-agai…

Displaying Death Tolls on Highways Isn’t Making Anyone Drive Any Safer
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/24/displaying-d…

Uber and Lyft cause more traffic violations
www.sfexaminer.com/news/sfpd-uber-lyft-account-for…

➜ Timestamps:
0:00 Our streets are insanely dangerous
1:02 How streets are designed
2:58 Personal responsibility
5:37 Drunk/distracted driving
7:55 Designing safer streets
10:02 Bad solutions to road safety
12:08 Why safe streets matter

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