>>1377282There's one more reason, one that the median age of 4chan/n/ users won't realize because they're too young:
Driver education and training.
Back in the day, in your Sophomore year in Highschool, you'd have an elective Driver Education class, and there was also an elective Driver Training class, literally in-car driver training. Schools don't do this anymore due mainly for reasons of insufficient budget. So driver education and training fell to parents, who either paid out-of-pocket for expensive private driver education/training, or they just did it themselves -- *poorly*. So we have at least one full generation of drivers on the roads who were not properly prepared to be drivers, and who, on average, are just barely adequate at it. The bar has been lowered significantly, and what I would once have called 'competent' is almost nowhere to be found anymore.
Now add into the mix an influx of adult immigrants, from whom their countries of origin had roads and traffic that were closer to a Mad Max dystopian post-apocalyptic future than anything else. They too barely pass DMV tests, but they pass, and they bring their bad driving habits to U.S. roads.
Next add in the widespread advent of smartphones and how people can't seem to get their eyes off them for more than a few minutes, plus cars that are more and more comfortable inside with more and more distractions inside, and you get severely Distracted Driving problems.
Some idiots think Self Driving Cars will fix all this. It won't because they're garbage that will never work right. What will fix all this is reforms in Driver Education and Training, and reforms in driver testing protocols, to weed out the habitually bad drivers and the untrainable incompetent drivers.
Eliminating private vehicles is a non-starter; it's 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater', so-to-speak. We need to *FIX* the problem.
