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You seem to suggest cars save more lives than they take. I am not sure that's the case. Especially knowing the car injury stats and secondary effects of differ

• petodo 4y ago
  It's quite simple math, for instance ambulances deliver every year thousands of people in life threatening conditions, while road deaths are in low hundreds, there is no noncar alternative to ambulance really. Regarding pollution it would be very complicated to calculate, but I think you overestimate impact of public and personal transport on pollution, it's negligible compared to other sources of pollution calculated per capita.
• spicybright 4y ago
  Definitely not. But it's not just only optimizing for life, it's having flexible and reliable transportation while making sure as few injuries happen as possible in the process. Motor travel let us distribute food, medicine, and specialized labor that would otherwise be impossible/impractical to do. Sure you can argue that's not worth the non zero number of lives lost in the process, but we wouldn't be able to live the modern lifestyles we have today without it. Like being able to go to a hospital filled with teams of experienced specialists to get better treatment.