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This isn’t a hard question. Over 40,000 Americans died on roads last year. I’ll bet my house that 13,000 people were not run over by horses in 1920. But also,
by pkulak 3y ago
This isn’t a hard question. Over 40,000 Americans died on roads last year. I’ll bet my house that 13,000 people were not run over by horses in 1920.
But also, this is pure straw man. The modern alternatives to cars are trains, bikes and busses.
- swalling 3y agoYou’d have to look at the annual per capita numbers. Anyway I agree it’s possible cars today are way more deadly. We have no way of knowing, but we know for sure that it wasn’t all wine and honey pre automobile.
- pkulak 3y ago> You’d have to look at the annual per capita numbers. Yeah, I adjusted them. The population has tripled.