the US road system mapped by deaths
(midwest.social)
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Fuck CarsPic taken from roadway.report, an interactive map of all known roadway deaths in the USA.
Fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes are the third largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States. On average for 2024 there were over 100 deaths per day on US roads.
Dammit, I saw this post and thought "let me get that xkcd comic..." Oh well, one upvote for you :-)
I'm 2h late 😐
https://lemmy.ml/post/47387120/25701920
This graph would be identical for nearly any cause of death. Yes, we should drive less, and if we must drive then it should be safer, but this is just a graph of population, which itself is highly correlated with people dieing.
Other causes of death would likely look less like spiderwebs since it's just a population density map by counties, but this one is specifically along roadways. The interesting difference between a population density map and this map specifically is you can see the long stretches of roads in the middle of nowhere and how dangerous they can be.
https://roadway.report/population
They have a per capita adjusted map too. Cities are much lower than rural areas generally.
They even provide access to the underlying data.
https://roadway.report/accidents/
I wasn't really surprised by that. My county is corrupt to the core, and intentional hit and runs are written up and reported as accidental, unless you are~~n't~~ paying or related to people.
https://roadway.report/contact
I don't care either. Disengage.
Lemmy.ml doesn’t formally follow the disengage rule, but I think we’re generally likely to honor it.
that's crazy to think about, you think of cities being way worse, but I guess it does make sense.
Rural people drive faster, and there are very few pedestrians.
Smaller cities are light on pedestrians and very car focused, meaning those few pedestrians have drivers who are less used to pedestirans, and drivers still drive like they're on highways.
I was in Albuquerque recently, and I have never felt less safe as a pedestrian. You have people swerving through intersections, being surprised we were walking on the walk signal, upset with us, we had to walk around parked cars, into traffic, it was horrible.
Rural areas also have less well-maintained roads, poorer lighting, and more wildlife that may run into the road, in addition to requiring more driving because everything is further apart.
#EveryMapIsPopulation
We should standardize on printing statistics like this in magenta superimposed on the population density printed in yellow—then per capita differences would show up as different hues (pinkish for high or orangish for low).
I think for this map to be salvaged you need to fix the denominator and not use political boundaries for aggregation. Hexagons or raster because the entire point is to make it arbitrary. The formula would need to be something like (Auto Deaths per capita)/(Road Miles Traveled Per capita), or maybe (Auto Deaths per capita)/(Sum of length of roads per cell).
Regardless, its still a population map because the denominator gets really small in rural areas, and the map still doesn't tell us anything about how safe or dangerous roads are.
https://roadway.report/population
#LowEffortCommentsAreSilly
#EvenThatMapEndsUpBeingAMapOfPopulation,ButMoreOfABoolean,BecausePeopleDon'tDieWhereThereAren'tPeopleAndItTakesTwoToTango
The red is higher rate of death per capita. You can die in a car by yourself in the middle of no where.
#IThoughtWeWereHavingThisConversationInHastagsButTheIssueIsTheDenominator,andThatThereIsPracticallyNoOneInRuralAreas,SoAnyNumberOfDeathsOverAMuchSmallerNumBerAppearsBig.ItsStillAMapOfPopulation
#TheyShouldProbablyBeUsingAMoreStandardRasterGridAndThenDividingBySomeNumberThatAccountsForTheDistanceTravelledPerUnitRoadInAGivenCell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_tract#United_States
Red is the colour.
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