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Hey everyone, Emily Peck here with What Next TBD, closing out 2023.

It's been a wild year, folks, especially for tech.

We saw AI finally break through to the mainstream.

crypto star or former star Sam Bankman freed was put on trial and convicted and

I mean so much Elon Musk drama. But now it's the holidays and TBD is taking a break from the news to look back at the year.

We'll return with new episodes in January and in the meantime here's one of our favorite episodes from

23. We hope you enjoy.

Last year marked a grim milestone in the US.

A report in June from the Governor's Highway Safety Association found that

2022 was the deadliest year for pedestrians in more than four decades.

The US is a global outlier here.

In comparable developed nations, the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has fallen in recent years.

What's happening here has a lot to do with Americans' love for big, big SUVs and trucks, but there's more to the story. Our roads, the design of our cities, and the powerful auto industry all play a role.

In July, journalist Jesse Singer told us why, when it comes to pedestrian deaths, there are no accidents.

If you were to a line that began to dip

slowly in the late 1970s, in the late 1970s.

That line would trend downward at a steady pace until roughly 10 years ago.

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