Adopting permanent daylight saving time in the United States would reduce deer-vehicle collisions, report researchers.
The switch would likely prevent an estimated 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths, 2,054 human injuries, and $1.19 billion in costs each year, the study finds. Deer-vehicle collisions would decrease under permanent DST because skies would be brighter later into the evening.
In much of the United States, the twice-yearly shift in timekeeping between standard time and daylight saving time, or DST, delays both sunrise and sunset to make mornings darker and evenings brighter. Recently, scientists, policy experts, lawmakers, and citizens have debated abandoning the twice-a-year switch and adopting either year-round standard time or DST….