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> We can be glad we have cars, trucks and roads that are a bit more resistant to attacks. Cars/trucks/roads are so much more dangerous than train travel that i
by drewrv 2y ago
> We can be glad we have cars, trucks and roads that are a bit more resistant to attacks.
Cars/trucks/roads are so much more dangerous than train travel that it actually seems worth the tradeoff to me even if these sorts of attacks were a regular occurrence. Putin (or whoever did this) sucks but they have not killed 1,105 Americans in a single year. That's just the number of cyclists killed by cars in 2022. Deaths of pedestrians and drivers/passengers are significantly higher.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-06-24/us-traffic-deaths-fall-in-early-2024-but-above-pre-covid-levels https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-06-24/us-...
- rplnt 2y agoAnd that doesn't include effects of local pollution in dense city emvironments. Both air and noise kills us.
- mbivert 2y agoNor does it include the lack of physical exercise induced by cars, the time spent driving, oil related conflicts, etc. It's surprising how little people know about how cars came to be so prominent: https://web.archive.org/web/20230216004635/https://libraryarchives.metro.net/dpgtl/testimony/1974_statement_bradford_c_snell_s1167.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20230216004635/https://libraryar...