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Not to be That Guy, but all car seats are unsafe since they're in cars. Im shocked on a daily basis how stupid and short sighted our car culture is, everyone ha

• willio58 3y ago
  > Any random stranger can sneeze at any time and kill your whole family. So true. I live right near a stroad and a crosswalk on that stroad and about once a week I hear brakes being slammed on because people aren't paying attention and it's a high-traffic area for walkers (some of which are children) since the rest of the neighborhood is actually quite walkable. I've live in this place 1 year and now witnessed 4 accidents, luckily none of them killing anyone yet but it's just a matter of time. I've also been traveling a lot recently and experiencing cities (even American ones) that value good public transportation with metros (and even trains in the Northeast) and it's a breath of fresh air. Then I come back to where I live and the only way to describe it is I'm watching these huge machines, piloted by and only transporting 1 person in most cases, barreling around my local area just narrowly missing each other at high speeds. Every pilot is just assuming every other pilot had enough coffee that day, isn't massively distracted by any number of things, doesn't have road rage, isn't trying to show off their loud, polluting, and dangerous machine, etc. No wonder kids increasingly stay inside and get depressed. Previous generations literally built car and parking lot hellscapes and expect people to still enjoy life outside the home.
• eru 3y ago
  > Not to be That Guy, but all car seats are unsafe since they're in cars. Safety is a spectrum, not a binary.