![]() ![]() Sara BRONIN: In the United States, we’ve decided that car movement is really the supreme consideration when it comes to designing our streets. Kelcie RALPH: The cars we’re driving are bigger, badder, faster.ĭavid STRAYER: The problem of distraction has gotten much worse. So, today on Freakonomics Radio, we’re back at it, with one simple question: why? Why are we a world leader in this terrible statistic? is particularly good at killing pedestrians - the death rate here is much higher than in places like northern and western Europe, Canada, and Japan. Among the world’s high-income countries, the U.S. Even during the pandemic, when driving was way down, pedestrian deaths continued to rise. ![]() And it’s not just the raw numbers increasing: the rate of pedestrian deaths per mile driven is the highest in more than 40 years. It did not! In 2014, the year we published “The Perfect Crime,” there were just under 5,000 pedestrian deaths in the U.S. In our legal and transportation systems, the car is supreme, and pedestrians don’t have much protection.īack when we made that episode, I guess we had a slight hope that presenting the data and discussing the problem might lead to some progress. ![]() If you are driving a car and you kill a pedestrian - even if it’s entirely your fault - most likely, nothing very bad will happen to you. That’s the way it works, especially in America. We made an episode almost a decade ago called “ The Perfect Crime.” The idea was that if you wanted to kill someone and not go to prison, the best way would be to simply run them over with your car. ![]()
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