[nsbk]

The US averages 23 pedestrian deaths per million people per year. The EU averages 8. The US fatalities have increased by 50% since 2013, while in the EU have decreased by 25% in the same time frame.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7408a2.htm

[Aurornis]

What does this have to do with the comment you're replying to?

The US was ahead of the EU in requiring backup cameras on new vehicles.

The majority of pedestrian accidents aren't involved with backup cameras.

Are you just trying to turn this into a US vs EU argument?

[pasquinelli]

i think they're talking about the types of cars popular in the us vs. the eu.

[testdelacc1]

What’s really crazy was Trump forcing the UK to change road safety rules so they could sell more American pick up trucks in the UK.

So pedestrian deaths would start rising again.

[badc0ffee]

I'm having trouble imagining American pickup trucks fitting on the road in the UK. Aren't the lanes and the cars all much narrower?

[drnick1]

> The US averages 23 pedestrian deaths per million people per year. The EU averages 8.

Americans drive significantly more miles per year, and larger/more comfortable cars are in part needed because Americans spend far more time in their cars than Europeans.

Euro governments are also increasingly anti-car, which means citizens are loosing their freedom to travel as they wish and unreasonably taxed, policed, and treated like cash cows for the "privilege" of driving.

[myko]

> which means citizens are loosing their freedom to travel as they wish

Most of my European friends brag about how they can get anywhere via train and how much more comfortable it is to travel that way. When I visit Europe I have to agree. Just haven't really seen this viewpoint, though I do think I would feel this way as an American if I moved to Europe to some extent (though I'd be extremely happy to have viable mass transit).