The Atlantic Swerve

The Atlantic magazine continues to be a source of absurdity. Today’s article in question surmises that the majority of traffic fatalities in the US are not the result of driver error, rather the fault of car manufacturers for making heavy SUVs with not enough safety features, the designers of the road for not making signs visible enough and roadways that compel the driver to slow down. And of course, there’s the weather. Climate change, you know. The conclusion is that we should be more like Europe (of course) and drive little bitty underpowered cars for our own good. We should also employ their brilliant highway engineers who are apparently better than we are at fabricating annoying signage, suggesting they’ve never been to New York, and making roads unsuitable for speeds fast enough to cause any carnage. All part of the movement I suppose for us to cower in identifying yet another contrived threat to our well-being and to lower our standard of living expectations. The Atlantic must sequester their writers in cities where they have no use for a car and make sure they never travel abroad to make disparaging comparisons. Give me a break!