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From Yahoo - "The National Safety Council reported this week that traffic deaths and serious injuries in the U.S. are on a pace to rise for the first time in nearly a decade. If the trend for the first six months of this year continues, the NSC says traffic fatalities in the nation will exceed 40,000 for the first time since 2007 and deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled also will increase."
The Traffic View function on Google maps is my bff for my daily commute. There is an accident every day of the week on one of the two highways I drive to work. Everyone points their fingers at cell phones for being the culprit, and I'm always amazed when I pass someone going 60 and they're looking down at their laps. But the complex multi-function interfaces on auto dashboards don't help - I recently rented a popular SUV with a separate 250 page instruction manual just for the radio, GPS and hands-free cell phone.
However, IMO there is a level of anger and rudeness on the roads that is far more troubling than any digital device. A lot of accidents I observe happen around highway entrances where cars try to merge into oncoming traffic - people get very passionate about their place on the road. I hate the idea of driverless cars, but as the highways get more crowded it sounds like a better idea.
There are all kinds of PSA's on radio and TV about texting and driving, but I'd love to hear an equal number of ads about general rudeness on the roads.
Perhaps lower gas prices are allowing people to drive more. More drivers, more accidents.
Speeding is probably the number one cause of deadly accidents. Add that to the distractions you mentioned and its easy to see an increase in vehicular deaths.
I walk along a 1.7 mile dam, as I am walking toward traffic I see at least 3 in ten drivers have a hand-held phone stuck to their face. Even in cars in which you would think they have a integrated bluetooth system.
From Yahoo - "The National Safety Council reported this week that traffic deaths and serious injuries in the U.S. are on a pace to rise for the first time in nearly a decade. If the trend for the first six months of this year continues, the NSC says traffic fatalities in the nation will exceed 40,000 for the first time since 2007 and deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled also will increase."
The Traffic View function on Google maps is my bff for my daily commute. There is an accident every day of the week on one of the two highways I drive to work. Everyone points their fingers at cell phones for being the culprit, and I'm always amazed when I pass someone going 60 and they're looking down at their laps. But the complex multi-function interfaces on auto dashboards don't help - I recently rented a popular SUV with a separate 250 page instruction manual just for the radio, GPS and hands-free cell phone.
However, IMO there is a level of anger and rudeness on the roads that is far more troubling than any digital device. A lot of accidents I observe happen around highway entrances where cars try to merge into oncoming traffic - people get very passionate about their place on the road. I hate the idea of driverless cars, but as the highways get more crowded it sounds like a better idea.
There are all kinds of PSA's on radio and TV about texting and driving, but I'd love to hear an equal number of ads about general rudeness on the roads.
I have had more drifters recently than can remember. They are usually looking down As someone else suggested, perhaps with lower fuel costs there are more miles spent=more problems. Should be an easy one to equate if thats the case... but really would love to see people pay more attention when they're driving and STOP TEXTING WHILE DRIVING.
The economy is better so more people are on the road. Not to mention the population is increasing.
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As someone else suggested, perhaps with lower fuel costs there are more miles spent=more problems. Should be an easy one to equate if thats the case... but really would love to see people pay more attention when they're driving and STOP TEXTING WHILE DRIVING.
