I could have made this post “What Audi were you happy to be done with”

Never owned a car I was not in love with. I’m very picky with my cars. But since I travel for work, I have plenty of cars I was happy to return, and count my blessings that they are not my problems:

There’s something to be said for that. When an activity gets safer, people tend to increase risk taking to get back to the maximum level of risk they feel comfortable with. So you add 17 airbags, stability control, lane departure and automatic braking, and then the driver just uses Facebook while driving to cancel…

That is pretty much how I read this graph. We have only ourselves to blame.

The most informative statistic in the report isn’t given the article:

I agree with all of that.

There are several reasons for this but the most prominent reasons all can be traced to human negligence, ignorance and incredible amounts of stupidity.

Yeah, but now your entertainment system is basically an iPad. Instead of a head unit with basic buttons you can easily identify and use by feel alone, there’s now a giant touchscreen full of apps and submenus. You now have to stare at a screen and scroll through menus to do anything. So now your radio is as…

I rather doubt we drive 14% more miles since 2 years ago.

I don’t put up with people on their phones and driving when I’m in the car. I even snapped at my Uber driver a couple of weeks ago because he kept taking calls while driving me to the airport.

They can take my car when they pry it from my cold dead hands!

40,200 people died in U.S. car crashes in 2016, which is up six percent from 2015 estimates, and a total increase of a terrifying 14 percent in just two years.

Not to mention reducing visibility for cars behind them. That’s my biggest complaint about SUVs and minivans. My situation awareness, as the human factors people call it, is degraded.

I’m more surprised that there are still people that don’t buckle their seat belts... I thought we were past that point as a society.

I love people who don’t do common sense things because they think the government is out to get them.

I’m a professional transportation planner and this is missing the biggest variable: Annual miles driven. Gas prices are back down, so it’s cheaper to drive your own car more, and when people drive more, they’ll increase their risk of being involved in a collision at any point over the year. I work for a transit…

Put down your freaking phones people. I never touch my phone while driving, ever for any reason. Calls come in to my Bluetooth but that’s it, social media and texts are not worth your life. A fraction of a second with your eyes off the road is all it takes.

Also heavier, which means they are less safe for whatever they run into.

All that damn texting and driving.

How about a proliferation of SUVs and crossovers, which tend not to be as safe as equivalent passenger cars? To say nothing of increased braking distance, low levels of mechanical grip, and bad weight-shift behavior.