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"To save something"? Like people's lives? If you're under 35 in the US, you are more likely to die from a car collision than anything else. If you're under 1
by Steltek 11y ago
"To save something"? Like people's lives? If you're under 35 in the US, you are more likely to die from a car collision than anything else. If you're under 14, you're probably just better off playing with the stuff under the kitchen sink.
And tell me about this amazing new energy research that will be cheaper than gasoline and better for the environment. I must have missed that TED Talk.
You're offering solutions that don't exist yet in order to block the solutions that do.
- hugh4 11y agoIf you want to bump up the number of traffic fatalities, encouraging cycling is a pretty good way to do it. Every major injury I've ever had has come from cycling and before you blame cars -- none involved a collision with a car.
- Steltek 11y agoYour personal anecdotes and opinions do not trump national safety data. Statistics say bikes are safer than cars. Further, common sense says bike crashes involve far smaller amounts of kinetic energy. Lastly, you make several assumptions that education, enforcement, culture, and bike infrastructure would not change with a persistent focus on increasing active transportation.