"Is zero traffic deaths reasonable?" feels like a single question. It isn't. Buried inside it are a forecast, an engineering target, and a moral commitment, and they don't have the same answer.
A public health framing looks at what interventions move the number. An economics framing asks what tradeoff society is actually making. An ethics framing asks whether any nonzero number is acceptable at all.
Most of the Vision Zero debate is people confidently answering one of those while assuming they're answering all three.
Jake Lawrence
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