Car Facts

By square footage, there is more housing for each car in the United States than there is housing for each person.

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Across the whole metropolitan area of Houston there are roughly thirty parking spaces for every resident, or almost 200 million of them in total.That covers about 1,100 square miles, or more than ten Parises.

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Worldwide, more than a million people die a year in car crashes. In America, the annual figure is more than 40,000, or about twice as many as the number murdered.

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Getting rid of an hour- long daily commute raises people’s happiness by the equivalent of a $ 40,000 increase in income.

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A 2018 study by Schallar Consulting found that Uber and Lyft increased the number of cars on some American city streets by 180 percent. Another study of San Francisco found that ride- sharing companies accounted for more than half of the city’s growth in traffic.

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The most widely cited study connecting vehicle speed to pedestrian fatality risk was published by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in 2011, titled “Impact Speed and a Pedestrian’s Risk of Severe Injury or Death.” It modeled survival probability based on impact speed using U.S. crash data.

According to that study:

– At 23 mph, a pedestrian has about a 10% chance of dying

– At 32 mph, about 25%

– At 42 mph, about 50%

– At 50 mph, about 75%

– At 58 mph, about 90%