3,613,732 Can anyone guess what this number represents?

No?

It's the total estimated deaths from car crashes from 1899 to 2013.

Just for perspective, total deaths from ALL of the wars the US has been involved in:
1,354,664

There are about 14,000 car crashes EVERY day, resulting about 90 deaths every day, and 6,000 injuries every day.

All of this because we've PLANNED our cities, our country and our lives around the car since WW2?

We shouldn't make everyone have to drive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year#:~:text=For%202016%20specifically%2C%20National%20Highway,killing%2032%2C999%2C%20and%20injuring%202%2C239%2C000.

For a bit of perspective, the highest death count from rail travel in the US since 1975 was in 1993, with 67 deaths.

Last year it was FOUR. FOUR people died in train wrecks last year.

1993 was high only because of one accident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bayou_Canot_rail_accident

If there were 14,000 incidents on railroads there would be a national inquiry and a huge crisis, yet with cars we seem to accept this as a matter of course.

In what industry would we accept this level of incidents?

We literally have an entire system that depends on millions of people making millions of decisions correctly and without distraction, and when even one of these people makes a mistake it can have catastrophic effects, both in terms of traffic but also in lives, but it's accepted.

FYI, this is personal to me yes.

This is one of few pictures I have of my friend Dan, who was my college roomie, and we had talked much about getting old and being pals going fishing etc.

He was killed in 2001 at the age of 23 by a truck on a freeway

It didn't have to happen.

This sort of thing happens all the time. Trucks pull across highways and people die.

This guy was lucky. Dan was not.

Getting long distance freight off roads should be a first step.