A rising road toll in the US. A rising road toll in Australia. Journalists give 1000 reasons why it could be happening.

And they studiously avoid mentioning the growing proportion of massive SUVs and pickup trucks on the roads. If they mention it at all, it’s only in passing: https://youtu.be/Hb5_RUNeC0g?si=uuns6D1I6fGINdpU

But.

If you have larger and heavier cars, with larger blind spots, of course you’re going to have more fatalities!

Remember kids: Every 10cm a vehicle’s hood height increases, the risk of fatalities grows by 22%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

#car #cars #urbanism @fuck_cars

  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    And 48,830 people died from guns in 2021 in the US. But we can’t do shit because our founding fathers didn’t foresee semi automatic weapons outnumbering adults, and wrote some vague (but not really as vague as the Supreme Court seems to think) rule that means our schools need to be locked up like bunkers.

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      9 months ago

      Are you even honouring the second amendment if preschoolers can’t bring their own semiautomatic weaponry to school?

      The only way to stop a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun.