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It's interesting that the article talks about the failures of municipalities to build infrastructure that encourages safer driving - that our built infrastructure often encourages the opposite.

Pragmatically, we can reduce deaths by building better and safer infrastructure, and to replace unsafe infrastructure with safer infrastructure.

But (typically) when faced with these problems, Americans focus instead on the behavior of others - if only everyone was a great driver (like me!) and followed the rules (also like me!) then everything would be OK. Like that old line about how 100% of drivers think that they're above average drivers.

The reality is - you're always going to have a lot of bad drivers. If you build a better system for them to operate in, they'll kill fewer people.

Or we could ban cars, which is my preferred approach, but I'm being pragmatic here.