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What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Pedestrian deaths in America have been rising for the last decade, while dropping in Europe and Japan. What makes the U.S. so dangerous for pedestrians? Guest: Jessie Singer, author of There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were Liars.

0:08.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:10.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers.

0:25.2

We were liars.

0:26.3

New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:33.5

If you were to draw a graph of pedestrian deaths in America, you'd see a line that began to dip slowly in the late 1970s.

0:42.5

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

0:48.0

And then it would go the other way, telling a story about pedestrians and how they died.

0:54.0

Those fatalities fell for about 40 years and rose for the last 10.

1:01.0

That's Jesse Singer, a journalist, and the author of the book, There Are No Accidents.

1:06.5

And what happened in that last decade?

1:09.0

What happened in the last decade is a few things.

1:12.2

In general, pedestrians die because they're exposed to dangerous conditions, namely two dangerous conditions.

1:17.7

Wide fast streets with a lot of traffic that are unsafe for walking, but where people need to walk nonetheless.

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