I have always wondered why Joe Biden has not brought road safety up as a platform. I found this article very interesting, it's a Q&A with Dr. Cynthia Wachtell on car crashes and U.S. presidents.
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If Ryan and Brad are busy we could also use a politician, doesn't need to be sexy, though I've heard politicians tend to like sex, we will use anyone.
Here is a part of it:
Can you imagine if we did not pursue effective measures to prevent heart disease or breast cancer or prostate cancer? People would be up in arms about it.
There’s a man named Leonard Evans who is a former safety researcher for General Motors. And he a book called Traffic Safety. He wrote that the countries with the best traffic records acknowledge crashes as a major “public health problem” requiring urgent attention to a much greater extent than occurs in the U.S.
And that’s just it. We just had an entire presidential contest in which the word traffic accident never came up, except during the vice presidential debate when Joe Biden felt obliged in response to something Paul Ryan was saying about a family which had been personally affected by car accidents.
Joe Biden responded by discussing his own tragic experience. But no one built upon it. No one asked any of the candidates what are you going to do to make our roads safer.