{"id":13115,"date":"2015-10-02T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13115"},"modified":"2015-10-02T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:20:14","slug":"inequality-in-car-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/inequality-in-car-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Inequality In Car Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100215_1218_InequalityI1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham wrote about inequality on the road:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While deaths as a result of traffic accidents have been dropping over the years, the declines have been focused on the most educated.<\/li>\n<li>For those under 25 the rates of fatalities have actually increased.<\/li>\n<li>In 1995 deaths from accidents were 2.5 times higher for those at the bottom of the education spectrum compared to those at the top. In 2010 the ratio was 4.3.<\/li>\n<li>This is because those with less education are likely poorer and thus have older cars without modern safety features like side air bags and rear cameras.<\/li>\n<li>Poorer areas also have fewer hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>And poorer residents may not be able to muster the political strength to lobby for road safety features such as crosswalks, speed bumps and stop signs.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear if seat belts or alcohol play a role in the differences.<\/li>\n<li>This ratio will likely get worse as self-driving autonomous cars will, at first, only be affordable for the rich.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/10\/01\/the-hidden-inequality-of-who-dies-in-car-crashes\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/10\/01\/the-hidden-inequality-of-who-dies-in-car-crashes\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham wrote about inequality on the road: While deaths as a result of traffic accidents have been dropping over the years, the declines have been focused on the most educated. For those under 25 the rates of fatalities have actually increased. In 1995 deaths from accidents were 2.5 times higher for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100215_1218_InequalityI1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13118,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions\/13118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}