I get that you're trying to make a rhetorical point here, but that doesn't make the author's data support his conclusions. Punitively, I guess. What has Europe done? I'm not a public safety expert. All I can say is that I try not to do either, but I'm definitely not perfect. Certainly we could improve the vehicle safety side a lot. There was an agreement a few years ago between all the major automakers to share safety advances, but I haven't heard of it since, so I don't know what the status is. I think the industry could learn a lot from the airline industry, but in the end, what's always going to separate them is how hard it is to be a pilot and how easy it is to be a driver. I think the tech industry could do a lot better, too, in terms of making it hard for people to use their phones while driving. Not sure that will ever happen without legislation.How often are you almost hit by a moving vehicle, as a pedestrian?
How do you propose we control drunk driving and distracted driving?