In November 1924, Cobb told the New York Times: “It is now the fashion to ascribe from 70 to 90 per cent of all accidents to jaywalking. This is a matter of the viewpoint of the statistician.”

i agree with the "trucks too big" guys & all that but "playing on your phone while driving" is even more common than giant suvs and pickups. if you ride in a big enough vehicle you can look down and see that everyone is on their phone all the time on the road. but you don't because you're on yours

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle design rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths. The rules will likely change vehicle design permanently. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

The replacement of the amazingly functional minivan by the far less useful--and much more expensive, dangerous to others, and climate-unfriendly--4' or 6' bed pickup truck is a big, infuriating failure of both culture and policy. (Gift link)

"It wasn’t the first ticket or even the 50th tied to the car. Allen, who was given a photo of the license plate by a witness, learned that the Land Rover has 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras, six for speeding just this month and four for running red lights since July."

drivers... please...we're begging you...the stop sign tells you exactly what to do and where to do it. if you can't read the sign when you're stopped you've gone too far. do better.

The Economist has published a deeply-researched story about car bloat -- and it's very, very damning. "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: www.economist.com/interactive/...