“Human fallibility should not lead to human fatalities.” The US Department of Transportation wants to shift the focus from the actions of individual drivers to the role of street layouts and local policies.
that fatalities jumped again, to 20,160, from 17,020 in the first half of 2020. Black, American Indian, and rural Americans have died at disproportionate rates. So have pedestrians and cyclists. Compared with the rest of the world, the picture looks even darker: After accounting for population size, more people die on US roads than any comparable high-income country.
The strategy also puts forward a new approach to speeding, which killed nearly 10,500 Americans in 2020. It proposes revising the department’s guidance on setting speed limits—something that’s technically left up to the states. Instead of setting the limit according to how drivers, the department will help local engineers consider road design, layout, and people other than drivers. It could, in effect, lead some local officials to lower speed limits on some roads to make them safer.
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