“The department has adopted a strategy for reducing the deaths, including more than $800 million in grants to help communities with projects in high-crash areas, NHTSA said.” These grants and seminars, studies, texts, etc., have been going on for YEARS, at least my entire career, and I participated in them, and taught and wrote much curricula for same; but, every year there’s a new strategy and more money for grants, and the deaths keep piling up every year, just like the “war on drugs” did zero good. Why is that you think? Hint: Follow the money…in car design (lighter cars to meet CAFE stds means more deaths in crashes), infrastructure upgrade expenditures spent on social programs, lobby pressures, etc, and a whole host of social problems, like the war on drugs failure and thus drug and alcohol use in younger and younger populations, fatherless families etc.
“The department has adopted a strategy for reducing the deaths, including more than $800 million in grants to help communities with projects in high-crash areas, NHTSA said.” These grants and seminars, studies, texts, etc., have been going on for YEARS, at least my entire career, and I participated in them, and taught and wrote much curricula for same; but, every year there’s a new strategy and more money for grants, and the deaths keep piling up every year, just like the “war on drugs” did zero good. Why is that you think? Hint: Follow the money…in car design (lighter cars to meet CAFE stds means more deaths in crashes), infrastructure upgrade expenditures spent on social programs, lobby pressures, etc, and a whole host of social problems, like the war on drugs failure and thus drug and alcohol use in younger and younger populations, fatherless families etc.
You are the subject matter expert... and Bingo. Bulls eye