[BoxFour]

Highly likely a lot of it is simply older cars without safety features we consider basic these days (like side air bags) being phased out. Very few people driving cars from the 80s or earlier these days.

You can probably thank Ralph Nader for a lot of it, honestly.

[simplicio]

Also encompasses the "cash for clunkers" program and period of low interest rates, both of which accelerated the retirement of older cars for newer (and generally, safer) cars

[jsbg]

> You can probably thank Ralph Nader for a lot of it, honestly.

no

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35341056

[BoxFour]

Vehicles became a lot safer because of Ralph Nader.

Google “unsafe at any speed”.

[jsbg]

did you look at the graph? has he been active in auto safety since the 1920s?