Worth noting that this is a policy failure, not a technological one. Some places have solved this—e.g. Oslo has 0-1 car deaths a year—but American cities are unwilling or unable to make the infrastructure changes it takes. I think this is related to the lack of celebration issues—we celebrate change and progress less, and achieve less progress that would require change, because we value progress less than we used to.
Worth noting that this is a policy failure, not a technological one. Some places have solved this—e.g. Oslo has 0-1 car deaths a year—but American cities are unwilling or unable to make the infrastructure changes it takes. I think this is related to the lack of celebration issues—we celebrate change and progress less, and achieve less progress that would require change, because we value progress less than we used to.
Interesting, how does Oslo do it? What are the infrastructure changes required?
Partly street design to reduce speeding, partly encouraging other mode shares over private cars (see e.g. here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero )
(Disclaimer: I’m ideological about disliking cars, which makes me less objective than I’d usually prefer to be on LW)
I wouldn’t fret too much about bias here. It’s hard to incorrectly read “0”. :)
Thanks for linking to a source.