“They Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To”
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Nice explainer on why modern cars are safer (for the driver and the passengers) than older vehicles:
I am actually a little bit surprised that we haven’t yet seen Trump administration policy about how new cars need to be bigger and built out of steel and lose the airbags et al, all so that Trump and his fan base can remember the good ol’ days of big bloody wrecks on America’s highways. I suppose that might conflict with the other imperatives of the fan base, including being able to safely drive giant trucks and SUVs and run over pedestrians with impunity.
On the pedestrian issue, it’s becoming clear that the increase in pedestrian deaths and the increase in homelessness are tied together. This has been demonstrated in dramatic fashion over the past few months in Lexington, where we’ve seen a spate of pedestrian strikes along a well-traveled, high speed road not far from the I-75 interchange. I can attest from first person experience that it is not uncommon for evidently homeless persons to simply walk into that road and otherwise behave in ways that make collisions extremely likely. It’s not the entire story (more lethal cars and cell phone use are, I think, the biggest culprits), but it’s part of the story.
Photo Credit: By Jan.anders.nelson, Artist – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46957786