Just as what's damning to C++ is how its security track-record compares to other programming languages available today, it's how the US's current number of roadway deaths and serious injuries compares to other developed nations that is so embarrassing and depressing:
> [I]n the last 30 years, the US has not kept pace with tumbling traffic death rates in Europe, east Asia and Canada. In 2021, as the US hit a 16-year high for fatalities, Japan and Norway posted the lowest number of road deaths since the 1940s.
> The contrast is especially striking among so-called vulnerable road users, a category that includes walkers as well as those using bikes, scooters and wheelchairs. According to the OECD, pedestrian deaths in the US rose over 40% from 2010-18, more than twice the pace of any other member country (most of which saw a decline).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-03/why-us-tr...
