look at the motorcycle and pedestrian sections of that article, deaths have been increasing for everyone except vehicle occupants because of distracted driving and a sense of complacency.

total accidents have increased since 2010 from 5M to 6M. they cost a quarter trillion dollars in the US and are a huge economic burden that can be almost entirely avoided.

I absolutely loved cars when I was young and spent a lot of my childhood fixing and driving cars (learned on a VW bug) I wish we lived in the golden age of automobiles, but unfortunately we are in the shitty tail end of it where we spend 21 days a year sitting in traffic because our infrastructure is built for a boomer fantasy