COVID-19 Road Death Surge Continues
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The empty roads of the quarantine era may be a thing of the past, but the roadway death surges of the COVID era aren't done with America yet.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about NHTSA
Probe of Tesla Autopilot Could Pull Cars From Road
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And some advocates are wondering whether there might be even more regulation for Elon Musk's brainchild on the horizon, if not the autonomous vehicle industry at large.
Why U.S. Car Crash Reporting Is Broken
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Nearly a third of car crashes involving a vulnerable road user goes unreported in the nation's capital, skewing District crash totals that are critical to making changes — but advocates say that stunning stat is just the tip of a much larger national iceberg.
Road Death Rate Worse for Blacks, Indigenous People
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The U.S. is still failing to make meaningful progress to end the decades-long racial disparity in fatal car crash rates across modes, a new study finds — and things got worse during the pandemic.
Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise
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Aggressive driving isn’t the only deadly behavior on the rise on American roads — because raging U.S. motorists are killing more people with guns than any point in recent history, too.
Regulators Aren't Taming U.S. Megacar Crisis
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Federal regulators have known about the inherent dangers that large vehicles pose to vulnerable road users since the mid-1970s, but have done almost nothing to stop it — and they probably won’t because of who we are as a nation, a new legal research paper argues.