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

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Over 350 thousand Americans died in 2020 due to COVID. We went back to work after taking a few weeks off due to greed. No one batted an eye or even mentions it. That is such a large number of deaths, our life expectancy is back to what it was in the 80’s.

500 people is laughable to a country that holds more value to the dollar than to life.

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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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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.

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