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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/111563849069240061">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 12:54:26 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a></section><article><p>Why are so many American pedestrians being killed by car-drivers at night?</p><p>Fascinating piece in the New York Times (free link here: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.uEMf.FuV3jZhYzZHu&amp;hpgrp=k-abar&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.uEMf.FuV3jZhYzZHu&amp;hpgrp=k-abar&amp;smid=url-share</a>) on this question</p><p>After years of decline, the number of pedestrians killed by drivers began to rise in 2008 -- but only *at night*</p><p>No-one's quite sure why</p><p>Embiggified vehicles don't seem to be the cause ...</p><p>... though distracted driving does seem to be part of it</p><p>Also: more people living alongside massive highway-esque suburban roads</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2442344#notice-4830012">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-12-12T12:54:26+09:00" title="Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 12:54:26 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/111563849069240061" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/111563849069240061">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1952975">A chart entitled "pedestrian, death rate at night". The X axis shows years ago, going from 2002 to 2020 in increments of five years. The Y axis shows the number of deaths per million residents, going from 0 to 15 in increments of five. Four grey lines, illustrating Australia, Britain, Canada, and France all begin the chart a little over 5 on the Y axix, and overt ime decline to between one and four. Meanwhile, a blue line showing the United States begins in 2000 at the level of 10 on the Y axix, slowly drops to a little below that by 2010, then begins climbing to reach over 15 by 2020</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/563/835/728/384/555/original/1eb6abe352d198b9.png" rel="external">https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/563/835/728/384/555/original/1eb6abe352d198b9.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: static01.nyt.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.uEMf.FuV3jZhYzZHu&amp;hpgrp=k-abar&amp;smid=url-share">Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?</a></h5><div> from <span>https://www.nytimes.com/by/josh-katz</span></div></header><div>Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 12:54:26 JST Clive Thompson
Why are so many American pedestrians being killed by car-drivers at night?
Fascinating piece in the New York Times (free link here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.uEMf.FuV3jZhYzZHu&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share) on this question
After years of decline, the number of pedestrians killed by drivers began to rise in 2008 -- but only *at night*
No-one's quite sure why
Embiggified vehicles don't seem to be the cause ...
... though distracted driving does seem to be part of it
Also: more people living alongside massive highway-esque suburban roads
In conversationabout a year ago from saturation.socialpermalink
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1. A chart entitled "pedestrian, death rate at night". The X axis shows years ago, going from 2002 to 2020 in increments of five years. The Y axis shows the number of deaths per million residents, going from 0 to 15 in increments of five. Four grey lines, illustrating Australia, Britain, Canada, and France all begin the chart a little over 5 on the Y axix, and overt ime decline to between one and four. Meanwhile, a blue line showing the United States begins in 2000 at the level of 10 on the Y axix, slowly drops to a little below that by 2010, then begins climbing to reach over 15 by 2020
  https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/563/835/728/384/555/original/1eb6abe352d198b9.png
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  Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?
  from https://www.nytimes.com/by/josh-katz
  Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries.

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