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"Annual U.S. highway fatalities outnumber the yearly war dead during each Vietnam, Iraq, the War of 1812, and the American Revolution." This kind of nonsense is

"Annual U.S. highway fatalities outnumber the yearly war dead during each Vietnam, Iraq, the War of 1812, and the American Revolution." This kind of nonsense is why all population statistics should be reported per person per year. 1. Public transportation is a huge vector for viral diseases. 2. You can drive to a place any time of the day. Public transport doesn't always work 24/7. 3. If you live in a shitty neighborhood, you most likely would not want to walk or take a bicycle everywhere. So in some ways cars can make you safer. 4. Car efficiency and safety is something that is getting improved all the time. 5. If something bad happens (think hurricane), relying on public transportation will get you stranded with much higher probability.

tonyedgecombe 11y ago
1. You won't be getting on a plane then? 2. You fit your life to the schedule, just as you fit existing journeys around the fact your car can't do 300 mph or drive over water. It isn't worse, just different. 3. Perhaps the neighbourhood wouldn't be so shitty if everybody wasn't in a car isolated from their surroundings. 4. Cars have been getting bigger all the time, those efficiency gains have been squandered on SUVs. 5. Maybe, although basing your transport policy around freak events isn't that sensible.
- Grishnakh 10y ago
  You sound like a European who's never been to the US. >You won't be getting on a plane then? Most people don't ride planes very often. If you rely on public transit, you have to use it multiple times per day. People can go months or years before boarding a plane. >Perhaps the neighbourhood [sic] wouldn't be so shitty if everybody wasn't in a car isolated from their surroundings. No, the neighborhood is shitty for various other reasons which have nothing to do with cars. America has long had a problem with race relations. >Maybe, although basing your transport policy around freak events isn't that sensible. What "freak events"? Hurricanes happen here quite frequently, as do lesser storms.
- surge 10y ago
  There are at least 2-3 hurricanes hitting the US coast a year, and continues to increase as climate change becomes more prevalent. The U.S not driving won't make much of a dent in climate change, not with China and other industrializing nations. But if you really cared about greenhouse gases, not soap boxes, let's talk about eating meat. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up...

tonyedgecombe 11y ago

1. You won't be getting on a plane then? 2. You fit your life to the schedule, just as you fit existing journeys around the fact your car can't do 300 mph or drive over water. It isn't worse, just different. 3. Perhaps the neighbourhood wouldn't be so shitty if everybody wasn't in a car isolated from their surroundings. 4. Cars have been getting bigger all the time, those efficiency gains have been squandered on SUVs. 5. Maybe, although basing your transport policy around freak events isn't that sensible.

Grishnakh 10y ago
You sound like a European who's never been to the US. >You won't be getting on a plane then? Most people don't ride planes very often. If you rely on public transit, you have to use it multiple times per day. People can go months or years before boarding a plane. >Perhaps the neighbourhood [sic] wouldn't be so shitty if everybody wasn't in a car isolated from their surroundings. No, the neighborhood is shitty for various other reasons which have nothing to do with cars. America has long had a problem with race relations. >Maybe, although basing your transport policy around freak events isn't that sensible. What "freak events"? Hurricanes happen here quite frequently, as do lesser storms.
surge 10y ago
There are at least 2-3 hurricanes hitting the US coast a year, and continues to increase as climate change becomes more prevalent. The U.S not driving won't make much of a dent in climate change, not with China and other industrializing nations. But if you really cared about greenhouse gases, not soap boxes, let's talk about eating meat. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up...