Oh, rarelamb? Your claiming that meeting the fuel efficiency standards imposed by the "environmentalists" (What?? You're not an environmentalist? Don't you care about the air you breathe? Don't you care whether we leave viable nature for your children and grandchildren?) are causing additional deaths through lighter weight vehicles is a little shortsighted, imo.

We have a host of remedies and options. We could impose lower speed limits for all vehicles. We could speed the development and installation of contact inhibitors on our cars. We could re-instate interstate rail service for commerce, complete with truck container carriage capacity. If the people call for it, the money for research and developmnet and the technical people eager to get in on the action - and the money - will be there.

There are many, many ways to go besides what we now consider the norm.