why drive a car that makes that priority harder to fulfill?
These cars don’t make it harder to not hit someone though, that’s not what the article is about. It’s about if you do hit someone they’re more likely to die, which is pretty obvious seeing as how if your head and torso connect with the car instead of just your waist down, you’re more likely to die.
Shit happens. No one means to hit a pedestrian. Sometimes people with actually clean records hit pedestrians. It’s not called an accident because it was on purpose…
As is the case with every sane driver on the road. All the same, pedestrians are hit by vehicles every day.
With the volume of car travel in the world, it is a statistical certainty that people will make mistakes, be it distraction, complacency, fatigue, whatever the cause. An abundance of these high up, flat-fronted vehicles create a scenario such that WHEN those mistakes DO happen, they’re far more likely to end a life. To suggest that people should just be better drivers is essentially just wishing the problem will solve itself.
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why drive a car that makes that priority harder to fulfill?
These cars don’t make it harder to not hit someone though, that’s not what the article is about. It’s about if you do hit someone they’re more likely to die, which is pretty obvious seeing as how if your head and torso connect with the car instead of just your waist down, you’re more likely to die.
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Shit happens. No one means to hit a pedestrian. Sometimes people with actually clean records hit pedestrians. It’s not called an accident because it was on purpose…
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So your record isn’t “squeaky clean” then, is it?
hasty generalization
As is the case with every sane driver on the road. All the same, pedestrians are hit by vehicles every day.
With the volume of car travel in the world, it is a statistical certainty that people will make mistakes, be it distraction, complacency, fatigue, whatever the cause. An abundance of these high up, flat-fronted vehicles create a scenario such that WHEN those mistakes DO happen, they’re far more likely to end a life. To suggest that people should just be better drivers is essentially just wishing the problem will solve itself.