Adrian Lund, president of safety advocacy group the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, has taken the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the media to task over what he perceives to be misaligned priorities. While acknowledging that unintended acceleration and distracted driving are problematic, Lund argues that the recent rash of attention those two topics have received from both NHTSA and the media at large are taking focus away from two more dangerous threats -- speeding and running red lights. Curbing these two behaviors, Lund argued, would best help to reduce deaths on America's roads. In a quote reported by the Consumer Reports blog, Lund says:
“The hypervisibility of these issues diverts attention from initiatives that have far greater potential to save lives,” he says. “There’s nothing rational about the way we set highway safety priorities.”
Lund goes on to recommend replacing intersections with rotaries, cracking down on speed limit infractions and using red-light cameras more widely.
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