SF’s zero fatality goal crashes into realities

SF’s zero fatality goal crashes into realities

San Francisco isn’t the only California city to adopt an unrealistic road-safety fad called Vision Zero, but it did so early enough that we can now analyze the results of the program. To put it simply, it’s a bust. As the city’s grand jury reported in June, the program was “adopted in San Francisco in 2014 with the aim of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024” but “has failed by its own metrics. Instead of getting to zero fatalities, 2024 marked th…

Motorcyclist injury risk as a function of real-life crash speed and other contributing factors

The Vision Zero approach advocates for a road transport system designed with human injury tolerance and human fallibility as its basis. While biomecha…