"Michael" wrote in message
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Thomas Borchert wrote
Both car and GA accident rates have dramatically declined with technical
improvements to safety over the last decades. This expert is simply not
supported
by the numbers.

Actually, that's not true at all. FATALITY rates have improved
dramatically; accident rates are actually up.

Serious accident rates (IB) are down...minor accident rates are up.


Technology has indeed made cars safer; it has also made them more
expensive in constant dollars.

As well as several others factors outside of technology. Technology should
make them _cheaper_.

I'd say "crowded cities" is the biggest factor, or at least one of the
biggest. Add to all that the fact that there is far more widespread drivers
training, crackdowns on DUI, better road design and paving...those will
pare the rates.

OTOH, way back years ago (the late 70's or early 80's) a school of Highway
Engineering (U of Houston rings a bell) announced that bad traffic controls
were a major factor in a very high percentage of accidents. Something like
2/3rds.

When was the last time you ever hit more than two green lights in a row?