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In an age where people are as lonely and isolated as ever and rightly complain about the ubiquity of car-based transportation, here is a group that has built an
by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
In an age where people are as lonely and isolated as ever and rightly complain about the ubiquity of car-based transportation, here is a group that has built an actual community around practically carbon-free transportation.
Though, yes, even as a skateboarder I don't condone the hill-bombing as it is legitimately too dangerous.
- uhhhhuhyes 4y ago
- Retric 4y agoCars taking over public streets happened because drivers just started killing so many people. It had nothing to do with people choosing cars over walking rather than living over being run over.
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- Apocryphon 4y agoSkate or Die!
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- dang 4y agoYikes, please don't take HN threads into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- skavi 4y agoSkateboarding culture is really stupid about safety gear. If they wore the same stuff longboarders wore when going down big slopes, the sport wouldn’t be nearly as dangerous.
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- megablast 4y agoCars kill a million people every single year. And seriously injure 100x many more. I can't really care about skater safety equipment when we allow cars to exist.
- tempestn 4y agoYou really need to look at incident rates rather than totals when making comparisons across categories like this. Plus, no one is suggesting banning skateboards, just participating in the sport as safely as possible. There is likewise an ongoing effort to make cars as safe as possible, and indeed they have gotten much safer for both passengers and pedestrians over the years.
- apsurd 4y agocurious how cars have become safer for pedestrians? i've anecdotally absorbed the opposite, but maybe i'm a biased bicyclist. Cars have only become increasingly massive; an arms race to "protect your family!" meaning the passengers.
- tempestn 4y agoI believe EU regulations lead the way here. Basically, part of crash testing now involves impacts with pedestrians. My understanding is that the primary effect is on the front-end shape of vehicles. When striking a pedestrian, you want them to roll up onto the hood, into the windshield, to spread out the impact as much as possible (in area and time). More recently, systems like automated emergency braking have helped too. Here, this wikipedia page gives an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_safety_through_vehicle_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_safety_through_vehi...
- Cederfjard 4y ago> You really need to look at incident rates rather than totals when making comparisons across categories like this. Depends on what you want to figure out. For finding out the comparative danger of an individual doing activity A versus activity B, sure. But if the group doing something exceedingly dangerous is quite small, it might not warrant an intervention as far as public health etc is concerned. Scale matters (sometimes). On the flip side, you can of course argue that the individuals who just happen to be in proximity of the dangerous activity are being unfairly exposed to risk they haven't consented to (if the activity poses a danger to bystanders, that is). We don't let people do whatever they want just because the people it affects are few, either.