Raising Speed Limits Is Irresponsible, But States Keep Doing It Anyway | WIRED
Until motor vehicle fatalities drop to zero (they have been dropping steadily for decades), we must not permit faster driving, says the author:
Fatal crashes have dropped 20 percent since 1999, but more than 30,000 people still die on US roads every year. Speeding plays a role in nearly a third of those crashes
Factfulness
The author of the story attended the private Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn (in 2023, tuition costs $57,000 per year for K-12), and has an A.B. degree from Princeton University in an unspecified subject (not listed because it’s a fluff degree?). The unsubsidized tuition costs at Princeton in 2023 is about $57k/year; with housing, food, other expenses, that its about $80,000 per year.
Coming from Brooklyn, now living in Seattle, and previously working in Washington, DC, and San Francisco, the author understands the lives and issues of those living in the rural western U.S. better than those who grew up and live in the western U.S.
