Last week, Ars Technica broke the news that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) quietly took down their 2022 crash data, for the rumored purpose to scrub gender data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). At the time, the records had simply vanished from the public database, leaving only speculation… now that the data has been reposted, we see that Ars Technica had it exactly right.
More sanding off things that form the US. Will it be reduced to a nubbin?
We’re past the nubbin, need a new pencil.