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I wouldn't really say “we persisted” in the case of cars, as much as the auto industry threw boatloads of money at lobbying to make people shift the blame from

I wouldn't really say “we persisted” in the case of cars, as much as the auto industry threw boatloads of money at lobbying to make people shift the blame from cars to their victims. Cars didn't get safer (for the people outside them), we just started blaming the people they killed instead.

echelon 3y ago
That's absolutely part of the equation. Back when we used horses for everything, people used to walk aimlessly in streets and children used to play in them. We advocate against that now. Society chose a new mandate. It wasn't just the auto companies - it was all of us.