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If you actually want to save lives, you might start at the top. Driving is hazardous for operators and for bystanders, and kills 40,000 people in the US alone e
by 0_____0 5y ago
If you actually want to save lives, you might start at the top. Driving is hazardous for operators and for bystanders, and kills 40,000 people in the US alone every year. Build cities such that the majority of people don't need or want to drive, and viola, you're saving lives.
And the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars worth of human effort and engineering put towards making cars that drive themselves can go to something else.
- Retric 5y agoMost deaths from driving occur outside of cities.
- 0_____0 5y agocould you clarify what you mean by 'outside of cities?'
- simondotau 5y agoIt would probably be more accurate to say ‘outside of city streets.’ The threat of death tends to scale with vehicle speed.
- maxdo 5y agoa very good joke, what's your estimate to rebuild every city and road in the world lol. Billions of dollars it's a very tiny small fraction of this money.
- 0_____0 5y agoIt's a matter of priority. Many people have this concept of Amsterdam and Utrecht as having forever been a cycling paradise, but the reality is that they were choked with cars and smog until the 70s. The political will existed to prioritize non-automotive modalities, and a few decades later you have what we see today.