At 27%, deaths due to rollovers in 1978 = 13,589 deaths
At 29%, deaths due to rollovers in 2018 = 10,602 deaths.

So, there were 3,000 fewer deaths, in a time when there are over twice as many miles driven per year (1.5T per year in 1978 vs 3.2T per year in 2018).  

And, assuming the 70% figure holds true for 2018, that…

Also why Darwinism is no longer a thing in the US.  We’re the only country that thinks protecting grossly negligent drivers/passengers is worthy cause.

Here’s another fact: Vehicles sold in the U.S. market are safer than vehicles purchased in any other country. Why? Because in the U.S., FMVSS and relevant caselaw requires the vehicle to reasonably protect you EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING A SEATBELT. No other country requires this level of protection. This is why many…

You could get vehicle occupant deaths to pretty much near zero if everyone were required to drive a tank-like safety cell in a 6 point harness (with helmet and HANS), roll cage and physically governed all speeds to 30mph (which is about what people were driving back in the 1920s when fatality rates per mile were an…

Statistics. 60% of the time they work every time.

Making cars safer and making them more fuel efficient and environmentally conscious are two directly opposing goals.

Why not make it illegal for people to purchase vehicles UNDER a certain ride height? That would get rid off all those eyesores that just get crushed when a normal sized vehicle runs into them.

“And it would also end the terrible trend of everyone buying cookie cutter vehicles that are eye sores on the road.”

“That is a clear failure to fulfill NHTSA’s mission to save lives and prevent injuries, especially when you consider that there are technologies out there now that could cut the annual death toll in half,” Friedman said.

1st gear: Some perspective seems in order.

1.15 deaths per 100 million miles traveled

On an average mileage of 12,000/year you will die once in a car crash every 8,333 years.

They ruin the look of cars for no benefit, and no jurisdiction should have them, what’s the debate?

It seems like a pretty low number, in my opinion. There’s always going to be some baseline number that we can’t get below, even with full self driving everything. Even trains crash.  

Let’s debate about non-political issue like front license plates instead.

In 2009, 33,883 Americans died in car crashes. If you relate that to how many people die compared to how much we are driving, that represented 1.15 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. In 2019, we were basically static.

No. Can we not politicize the news? Take a look at the examples from autonews.com.

How may crashes are there per 100 million miles? Without context of death rate in accidents the numbers don’t mean much for car safety.

Yep. Very aware it is in the dictionary and is a legitimate older weather term. My point was that the Weather Channelification (fear to generate clicks) seems to be dusting off older, scarier sounding terms. In this case, Derecho instead of straight line winds. Local news never used the former when I was growing up in…

From the general area. Very familiar with straight line winds. Only heard it referred to as a derecho recently and after moving away. Who is making the call on what these are called? Same with bomb cyclones, which seem to have originated in the past 5 years.