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Also stop making giant cars with low visibility

What, you don't like looking out the view slit in a tank as you try and drive down the road?!

I know it's supposed to be for increased impact performance, but surely being able to see out also reduces the incidence of accidents...right?

Stop inviting so many cars to everything - less pedestrian deaths.

So much USA urban and suburban land use is dedicated to cars. Massive wide stroads, enormous car parks etc.

It makes it so difficult to get anywhere without a motor vehicle, and it means there's way more cars on the road than there needs to be because lots of people just can't realistically do basic tasks without driving.

Seriously this.

If we assume that people are flawed and will fuck up and make random deadly mistakes, one of the most effective ways to make the deaths go down is to remove the cars from the road.

You might have the same mistake rate, but the total amount of cars going down will mean the deaths drop.