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the art of trusting your life to strangers doing 70 next to you.
means the set of engineering, laws, and behavior designed to keep multi-ton objects from turning routine trips into obituaries.
from emerged as a formal field in the 1960s when rising death tolls forced governments to stop treating car crashes as unavoidable acts of god and start treating them as engineering problems.
seatbelts alonecut fatal injury risk by roughly 45 percent
deadliest devicethe automobile kills more americans yearly than guns did until recently
speed mathcrash energy rises with the square of speed, not linearly
drunk drivingstill involved in about a third of us crash deaths
for instance
seatbelt laws — new york made them mandatory first, in 1984
vision zero — sweden's 1997 policy aiming for zero traffic deaths, adopted by nyc in 2014
crumple zones — mercedes patented them in 1952 to absorb crash force before it hits you
nhtsa — us agency created in 1970 to regulate car safety standards