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Trucks weigh a lot. The penalty for fucking around them is stiff. No surprise their involvement leads to more deaths. My understanding is that class 6/7/8 tr
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
Trucks weigh a lot. The penalty for fucking around them is stiff. No surprise their involvement leads to more deaths.
My understanding is that class 6/7/8 trucks only cause a tiny fraction of the crashes they're involved in. That's why they get so pissy when people who work in offices tell them they're the ones who have to suffer more regulation in the name of safety.
Citing states like % of fatal accidents doesn't mean much unless you know the accident has anything to do with something we regulate. No amount of sleep is going to stop someone from texting and driving nor will it change the physics of what happens when a 4k sedan rear ends 80k of truck.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoTheir argument was not that we can't regulate accidents away, but that it doesn't matter if truck drivers ignore regulations because they aren't having enough accidents to worry about. That's not true.