"The roads are safer" is not true. It's more dangerous to drive right now. There is no sense in either of these stories which it's safer to be on the roads.
Something like "the roads are killing fewer drivers" would be true.
Something like "the roads are killing fewer drivers" would be true.
You can't know which is a better explanation unless you have data with more granularity than is typically provided by the press.
In my experience, there are a lot more pedestrians blindly walking or running across the roads in the past couple months. The drop to nearly zero traffic lulled people into a false sense of security. People are treating every road like a giant sidewalk.
(Not advocating careless jaywalking, just pointing out the car-centric mentality makes me sad)
Genuinely don't think non-highway road crossing needs to be excessively regulated. Human beings will self-organize and the exceptions will not cause significant economic damage. More freedom and less regulation, please.
Drivers kill drivers. There are more dangerous drives on the streets with empty roads.
I think we can at least agree that the statement "the roads are safer" is false.
Plenty of places are increased traffic but not bumper to bumper
This is all rounding numbers that have been rounded already to smooth out uniqueness of a given locale
Water is wet level conclusion that using math correctly by math rules to debate a topic that’s locally unique and out of view for people in far flung regions.
My individual odds of dying in an accident haven’t changed much. Safer or worse in some aggregate measure isn’t that useful to me today or tomorrow. Still gonna do as I do.
You could express it in a way that would be correct to all the pedants out there, but it might be a long convoluted sentence.