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Cars are the 2nd greatest engineering blunder only second to nuclear weapons. Cars are inherently dangerous. Every time you drive you risk killing someone or
by lasermike026 9y ago
Cars are the 2nd greatest engineering blunder only second to nuclear weapons. Cars are inherently dangerous. Every time you drive you risk killing someone or yourself. We must work to eliminate cars from the world, at the very least cars driven by humans. I am completely serious. There are the pollution issues too.
- lolsal 9y agoYou don't think the benefits that automobiles brought to the world are worth more than "2nd greatest engineering blunder"?
- billmalarky 9y agoI imagine ambulances save more lives than automobiles take.
- amch 9y agoSeems pretty easy to quantify - it looks like there are ~37K motor vehicle deaths in a given year [0] and "Approximately 6.2 million patient transport ambulance trips occur annually." [1] Ambulances would need to save their passengers' lives <1% of the time for them to "break even" so to speak. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... [1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811677.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811677.pdf
- fenwick67 9y agoMany many ambulance trips are non-emergency. Even the emergency trips, it's difficult to say whether the person would have died if they didn't have an ambulance. Overall this would be pretty hard to quantify.