A different measure, also offering good news, was the fatality rate, the number of deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. It was 1.28 in 2008, the lowest on record. A year earlier it was 1.36.It'll go back up when fruit harvest time comes around, no reason.
Wrong. It will keep going down as cars get safer and safer. The measurements are wrong, as is your implication.
hmmm... The 1960s was back before the days of MADD and the liberty squelching laws they had passed. Back before seatbelts were in all cars. Back before speed limits were set at 55.
I thought the traffic fatality rates back then were horrendous, hence the need for all the new laws.
Now we’re back to those rates, and it’s a good thing?