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I know it's a meme but I have to talk about this.
Unironically a car is a weapon. Like, in a court of law, considered a weapon. People driving unsafely is equivalent to someone fucking around with a gun. It's that empathy and compassion that makes people upset because that person driving unsafely can so easily end the lives of dozens of people who didn't deserve it. Fuck cars and fuck unsafe drivers.
In theory. In practice? A car is the best way to kill someone and get away scot-free, or with only a slap on the wrist as punishment.
Oh, in theory for sure. The court system in the US is terrible
Not just the US, unfortunately.
True. I just live in this hellhole
Yeah unfortunately here in Australia we've got far too many cases of drivers killing cyclists and getting away scot free, too. Sometimes that's because the police fuck up and it doesn't even make it to court. Sometimes it's because our legal system (including juries) just don't care enough. Always it's because it's impossible to hold transport engineers and city councillors legally accountable for their failures.
There was just another crash today - a driver drove into a group of cyclists, killing one, and hit a tree.
In this case, the driver has also been killed by it. It's not exactly clear what happened. May have been a medical episode or swerving to dodge a roo or something.
Driving is so dangerous
And that goes quadruple for truck drivers, especially those who take stimulant drugs to not sleep and drive more, in an impaired state.
They are a plague of recklessness, like rogue missiles.
Using ballpark figures, let's say one out of every fifty vehicles is a truck, but where I live, trucks are involved in one out of every five accidents.
90% of drivers say they are a "above avarage" driver. You are most likely part of the issue, you just don't get to hear the excuses the other drivers make up in their heads.
I've found multiple sources for the 90% thing, not the original tho, so not sharing.
That's why I build in safety margins to how I drive.
same, by simply not driving and in fact avoiding sitting in a car as much as i can.
I am DEFINITELY below average.
Righteous (deserved) anger