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We still have that danger. But the animals are homo sapiens and they are surrounded by 2 tonnes of metal. :)

• EA-3167 2y ago
  This is true, but from the perspective of the time, automobiles were far from "2 tons of metal" and quite a bit slower. They were also a rich man's conveyance, even more so than a nice carriage, and I doubt people understood early on just how widely adopted the automobile would become. A lack of foresight is also very human.
  • heresie-dabord 2y ago
    >A lack of foresight is also very human. Let's call it what it really is. The stubborn unwillingness to consider scalability in our designs and planning — even in an era where a machine can do calculation for us.
• Tade0 2y ago
  One of the early examples of the Poisson distribution was the rate at which soldiers in the Prussian army would be fatally kicked by horses. Translates to a little over 30 deaths per year per million, so not a lot, though I suspect the number would have been much greater adjusted for distance travelled and even without that it's more than some countries achieve with their traffic.