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I've always kind of wondered what the country would be like if we held drivers materially accountable for injuring/killing other people. Ex, injuring a kid by
by mywittyname 5y ago
I've always kind of wondered what the country would be like if we held drivers materially accountable for injuring/killing other people. Ex, injuring a kid by rear ending a car was legally treated like inflicting the same injury with any other weapon.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoIt is treated the same way, at least under the law. People driving negligently can do go to jail for pedestrian fatalities.
- newsbinator 5y agoTo me (again, as a crazy anti-car person), the negligence was in ever thinking you could operate a car for 40 straight years without eventually sending some kid to the hospital. How many drivers go their whole lives without so much as a "fender-bender"? In a long enough adult human lifespan, even the best driver in the world can't avoid a fender-bender with the worst driver in the world.
- s1artibartfast 5y ago>To me (again, as a crazy anti-car person), the negligence was in ever thinking you could operate a car for 40 straight years without eventually sending some kid to the hospital. Any rational person would not expect to send someone to the hospital, based simply on the numbers. The pedestrian fatality rate is like 2/100k per year. If you are an average (bad) driver, you are unlikely to kill anyone. Add a huge fudge factor for hospitalization vs death, and you are still very unlikely to send someone to the hospital. Why would avoiding non-injury fender benders be the goal post? People expect to have a number of them in my life and that is why drivers have insurance.