Traffic deaths show no signs of abating despite years of tech advances

A thinker robot holds small car while sitting on a vehicle with wires connected to infrastructure. Pedestrian signs are behind the car. — An influx of automated-driving technology over many years has not reduced traffic deaths and injuries. (DAVE KLUG ILLUSTRATION)

March 24, 2025 11:00 AM

Traffic crashes killed tens of thousands of Americans and wrought a “suicidal mess” through city neighborhoods and across fledgling highways, Norman Bel Geddes wrote in 1939.

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