Killing someone with a car costs $1.6 million. California requires drivers to carry $30,000

• Max MautnerIn June 1922, Baltimore put up a 25-foot obelisk in Courthouse Plaza inscribed to the 130 children killed by drivers in the city the year before.
• Cities across the country were doing versions of this.
• The dead were overwhelmingly pedestrians and overwhelmingly young, and people had not yet grown accustomed to this fatal risk in their communities.