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This is what America's softly regulated human driving crisis looks like: "38,300 people were killed on U.S. roads, and 4.4 million were seriously injured, meani
by arzt 10y ago
This is what America's softly regulated human driving crisis looks like: "38,300 people were killed on U.S. roads, and 4.4 million were seriously injured, meaning 2015 likely was the deadliest driving year since 2008."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/18/467230965/2015-traffic-fatalities-rose-by-largest-percent-in-50-years-safety-group-says http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/18/467230965/...
- ythl 10y agoCan I get some stats on what America's softly regulated medical malpractice crisis looks like?
- Zikes 10y ago> between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death https://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals https://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-die-from-medical...
- mjfern 10y agoThis is a red herring. Just because there are also a frightening number of driving fatalities doesn't mean we shouldn't better regulate firearms. It means we should ALSO better regulate driving.
- ythl 10y agoAh, but priorities, priorities. Which should we regulate first? The media is leading me to believe that the "gun crisis" is the most pressing issue and that aggressive regulation will lead to the greatest gains in terms of preventing loss of life.
- _audakel 10y agoIt could be classified as a red herring. But I think he is trying to point out that the potential deaths a regulation will prevent does not correlate well with how much media coverage it receives.
- ld00d 10y agoHow many guns were used to safely transport people on U.S. roads from one place to another?
- ourcat 10y agoA car is designed to get you from A to B. A gun is designed to kill.
- nicolashahn 10y agoThen it's impressive that one is far more fatal than the one designed to kill.
- dionidium 10y agoHumans are more afraid of gun violence than car accidents. Since we pass laws for the benefit of humans, it is fitting and proper to consider what they fear in the cost assessment. If we ever start making laws for robots, then I'll get behind your passionless and ultra-rational account of death totals. But, for now, the laws we make are for meat bags and that's why your comment is a non sequitur.
- ythl 10y ago> Humans are more afraid of gun violence than car accidents. Well maybe we wouldn't be so afraid of gun violence if the media wasn't such a fear-mongering agenda-driven political entity. Maybe we should regulate the media instead of guns.
- _audakel 10y ago> Maybe we should regulate the media Donald Trump revokes Washington Post press credentials http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/13/media/donald-trump-washington-post-credentials/ http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/13/media/donald-trump-washingto... but i totaly agree with you. Much of our fear of guns is from media. They could probably make us all terrified of going out in our cars if it helped them sell more page views.
- dionidium 10y agoYou have this backwards. The reason the media focuses on shootings and not daily car accidents is because they know which one we fear more. They didn't create the fear. They're exploiting it.
- mkohlmyr 10y agoCan we get a combined statistic on how many drivers & shooters were under the influence of serious prescription drugs?
- dfat10 10y agoLuckily, this has become a huge focus for many of our most innovative companies. As someone who commutes in a car daily, I can only hope mass use of self-driving cars is soon a reality.