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It's a tradeoff. Tech to avoid most road accidents is there, proven and operational for over a hundred years: trams, trains, metro's, buses* etc. We often mak
by berkes 6y ago
It's a tradeoff.
Tech to avoid most road accidents is there, proven and operational for over a hundred years: trams, trains, metro's, buses* etc.
We often make the tradeoff to risk our lives, because of the (percieved and real) downsides of choosing the safer option.
This is not meant as a praise for PT, but to put down another datapoint on why people deliberately choose the more risky option. Both in (political) investment and on a daily base.
*while certainly no to 100% safe, public transport, and slower transport like bikes and walking, is almost always safer than private vehicles, and where not (e.g. buses), many accidents happen because of the shared space with those private vehicles.
- dudeinjapan 6y agoI live in Tokyo and don't own a car. I only walk, bike and take public transport.
- berkes 6y agoI'm sorry if I came over dismissive. I'm sorry for your losses and by no means tried to imply it was a fault of a "deliberate choice" made. Which my comment may imply. I was trying to say that traffic is dangerous, which your experiences seem to confirm. And that we, as society, somehow, don't push back against, but simply embrace and acknowledge. Every morning that we get into the car to work, again. And again.