Asklemmy

This is the only correct answer. Cars kill so many people it's absurd.

Statistically speaking, you will either die by cancer, or you will die in an automotive accident.

I drive on a lot of rural roads in the UK, mainly Wales, most of the time I'm just happy when the road has space for two cars to squeeze through and some visibility for what's coming around the corner of that rural lane. Actual physical lines separating the lanes? Oh boy it's my birthday. Yet with all that, we have a death rate per 100 million miles of just over a third of somewhere like the US, so I'd imagine the size of cars and inadequate licence requirements are probably bigger issues for road safety

Ok, this is a weird hypothetical, but if the world had been overcast for the last thousand years, and then suddenly there was sometimes just a completely blinding light in the sky that you sometimes have to drive straight toward, it would be chaos.

Before COVID I imagined that the death toll would be so high that most roads would be shut down until technology had been developed and distributed so that you could never be blinded by the sun while driving. (Not just a flip down sun visor, but something like an LCD screen front windshield with head tracking that automatically blocks just the sun from your view).

Now I know how quickly and easily people become acquainted with mass death.

Now I imagine there wouldn't even be a new driver's test required that requires you to demonstrate that you can safely drive into the sunset.

Just "We recommend, but don't require, that you have a sun visor in your car when using public roads."

im pretty sure the engineering is not at fault for most car accidents.

Ladders are legitimately one of the leading causes of death and serious injury among otherwise healthy middle aged adults. A basic fall protection system with some flex rope and a climbing harness can be had for around $100. I don't care if my neighbors think I'm a dweeb, I'm not dying for clean gutters.

Psh, I drink it everyday and I'm FINE

Idk if we use capitalism so much as we get used...

Pools are more dangerous than owning a gun in the same way that vending machines kill more people than sharks.

People are near vending machines way more often than they are near sharks, and people let their kids play in the pool more often than they let them play with firearms

You know, it boggles my mind why stoves in some countries don't come with thermoswitch. The decades old ones here come with it here. Either fire keeps the valve open via this thermoswitch or if fire goes out gas valve is shut off. Danger gone.