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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 What to do about America’s killer cars The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous as the rich-world average. It doesn’t have to be that way. The Economist Monster vehicles 5 Sep, 2024 | 884 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Each year cars kill roughly 40,000 people in America - and not just because it is a big place where people love to drive. The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous per mile driven as those in the rest of the rich world. Deaths there involving cars have increased over the past decade, despite the introduction of technology meant to make driving safer. Weight is to blame. Using data for 7.5m crashes in 14 American states in 2013-23, we found that for every 10,000 crashes the heaviest vehicles kill 37 people in the other car, compared with 5.7 for cars of a median weight and just 2.6 for the lightest. The situation is getting worse. In 2023, 31% of new cars in America weighed over 5,000lb (2
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