Not surprising; anger + heroin, I’d say.
Imagine how bad it would be if the 94,000,000 people not working were working and driving to and from work!
Texting while driving…as bad as drinking and driving. Also, don’t forget the tremendous increase in illegal aliens on our roads since 2011. We should list the fatalities by ethnicity, and insurance should be higher for those groups. Otherwise, why should my teen grandsons pay more for their insurance when they are very safe, well-trained drivers with no accidents on their record?
Distractions is my bet. People are doing everything but paying attention to driving. Cell phone texting, pokemon, you name it. I’m ALWAYS glancing behind me now, making sure the person behind me is watching the road instead of looking down at their phone.
one cause: Texting
might as well drive with your eyes closed if you text and drive
Illegal aliens probably account for half of these fatalities. The other half are giddy females busy typing on their wireless devices.
I have a feeling it is also partially due to the vast amount of illegals legally driving in CA,
I guess giving all those free drivers licenses to those Illegal Aliens wasn’t such a bright Ideal after all.
Thank You to all the States that did it and made this slaughter on the Nations Highways ..... all possible.
1. Auto travel has grown (cited by the article).
2. Vehicles have far more safety features today, but I suspect they are increasingly unsafe in many high-impact collisions as fuel efficiency standards have pushed manufacturers to build lighter cars.
3. We've seen an awful decline in driving skills in general, with distracted driving a particular factor. Add our aging driver population to the mix, too.
4. With the growth of walking and cycling in urban areas all over the country, there is more exposure to injury and death among people who have almost no protection in a crash. Dangerous designs in many roads that have crosswalks or bike lanes aren't helping, either.
Vermont began issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens on January 1, 2014.
Distracted driving (cell phones), impaired driving (opioids), and higher speed limits (Newton).
Automate driving.
They are making great progress. But we need more, sooner than later. Take humans out of the equation and free them to text and play pokemon.
Cell phones.
You laugh, but if cars were a new invention the general public would never be allowed to touch a steering wheel. :)
Legalizing marijuana. More potheads on the road.
I don't think we are going to put this text & driving thing back in the bottle. They will soon have tiny monitors built into sunglasses and keyboard strips attached to steering wheels. Think I'm kidding? It's coming.
It will be almost impossible to determine that a driver is distracted by texting, reading emails, streaming a sporting event live, watching a Netflix video, etc.
I find it interesting, along with funny, to see the Wall Street Journal base it’s information to lead their readers to interpret a state of 620K people to answer for the same topic all over the country. That amount of people could easily fit in any of the major city suburbs in the US. They need to broaden their spectrum or just shut up trying to mislead the public with “guesses.” This is why the major news suppliers like the NY Times, all the way to the San Jose Mercury News, are in trouble with circulation. They can’t be trusted. And only too slowly, the public is catching on.
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Too many illegals on the road. They don’t know how to drive.
Especially those black ones with full auto assault tranny’s.
The safer and more automatic we make cars, the more careless and inept drivers become.
I’m not saying we should kill the stupid, I think we should just remove the warning labels and extreme safety devices and let nature take its course...
