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Elderly driver plows into Los Angeles car dealership dragging customer 20 feet to her death(www.foxnews.com)

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Treczoks@lemmy.world
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That is a home-made American problem. If you are not living in a city center that happens to have usable public transport, being left without a car makes you an outcast. No shopping, no personal social contacts, no way to visit a doctor, etc.

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Archmage Azor@lemmy.world
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It’s not strictly american. I’m not american, and here we have plenty of elderly drivers, it makes me worried when I see them. Luckily we have good public transport too.

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thoughtorgan@lemmy.world
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You missed the point. It’s an American problem because our public transport got gutted or never even existed in the first place.

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astraeus@programming.dev
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I don’t think they missed the point, they just expanded that it isn’t only an American problem.

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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This is a problem in many countries besides America. The same shit happens in Canada. I remember elderly people crashing cars into buildings on the news occasionally growing up in Fake London, Ontario

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zepheriths@lemmy.world
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Ok everything except the first to lines is entirely irrelevant. I’m sure if an elderly bus driver drove into someone they would be dragged along for much longer

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Flabbergassed@artemis.camp
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Too bad there’s no Internet.

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Flabbergassed@artemis.camp
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140214-the-last-places-without-internet

TLRD: “To truly avoid the internet, then, you have to make a great deal of effort. Even the remotest wilderness now yields a signal of some sort.”

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LimitedWard@lemmy.world
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The Internet is not a replacement for real human interaction. Also a lot of elderly people have trouble using it.

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