You people are too exasperating in your IGNORANCE!
Count the deaths count the injuries!
Try being a pedestrian and/or taking a bus to get about.
Wakeup and smell the EXHAUST. Listen to the daily NOISE from all your automobiles.
Watch old people and people with little children on constant flight or fight mode trying to cross a street.
Your solutions of getting a better car,SUV,pickup will not help the situation. All you really want is cheaper gas and more parking spaces.

This is kinda like the bottled water and even the plastic baby bottles.
A product is put out. The media gets paid to put out the messages about how much you need this product, how convenient it is. Then everybody goes shopping.
Several decades later, the Health Department informs us there are dangers with this product.
As in the case of the baby bottles, they got pulled from the shelves.
Why has the Health Department not pulled automobiles from the roads.?
Hey Andrew, have you ever added up the social costs of driving?
Like: emergency costs, hospital costs, coroners,courts, police surveillance, rehab, oil spills, street cleaning,stresss related factors,pollution .
One traffic light costs $47,000 and how many do we have in Canada?
On average, a mile of road is a million bucks.
Rails in Canada can be revamped.