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yeah but automotive safety has been great the last twenty years especially for children
by slowhadoken 3y ago
yeah but automotive safety has been great the last twenty years especially for children
- mike_d 3y agoIt really has, cars have gotten progressively safer every year since 1975 for everyone involved. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/children#trends https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/child...
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoAre these charts simply displaying the gradual decline in children-under-13 walking and riding bicycles?
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- antasvara 3y agoThere's a line specifically for vehicle occupants.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoFair enough, but I don't think anyone doubts the increase in safety provided to vehicle occupants.
- weeblewobble 3y agoThe chart shows child pedestrian deaths went from 1632 to 144. So a tenfold decrease. No idea about the stats on child pedestrianship but I’d be surprised if it was down 10 fold.
- Turskarama 3y agoWhy would you be surprised? Even in my lifetime the number of kids you see out and about has decreased dramatically, there's both a lot less to do outside and a lot more to do inside.
- yaomtc 3y agoNot everyone involved. Not for people outside the car. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...
- slowhadoken 3y agoyou're more likely to die from falling than a pedestrian incident. Even more people commit suicide. Wow this is a dark subject.
- BytesAndGears 3y agoYeah but how many people never ride a bike because of this danger? Or let their kids walk anywhere near a major street? Almost everyone that I know in the US shares that fear, and they aren’t entirely wrong to feel that way (due to the current state of things). Even when I had to take a break from running due to injury and started cycling, my doctor looked me stone cold in the eyes and asked me to please not risk my life like that. Like, what the hell
- jrflowers 3y agoIf you think about it automotive safety is phenomenal if you decide to compare it to something else entirely. Few have the courage to say “disregard children outside of the car and think of suicide”. This is groundbreaking thinking
- CamperBob2 3y agoGee, I wonder what has happened since, say, 2008, that has caused pedestrians to lose any trace of situational awareness and wander in front of moving cars. It's almost as if they're distracted by something that became a factor relatively recently, around the same time that drivers also became much more distracted than usual. Someone should look into that.
- slowhadoken 3y ago[flagged]
- nerdbert 3y agoOnly for the children in the car. It's gotten dramatically worse for the 99.9999999% of children who are outside the car.