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

  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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    5 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.