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I don't drive. I'm sure I could even if I'm afraid to do it, but I don't like cars and society forcing us to drive partly for this reason. People drive lethal metal boxes everywhere without really thinking about it.
Cars are one of the most deadly things in a lot of countries and yet, they are totally normalised.
In Canada alone, in one year, nearly 2000 people died from car collisions. And distracted driving accounts for about 20% of those.
It's why I prefer to cycle, and on segregated paths if possible. Because when I cycle on the road, I always have this kind of thoughts in the back of my mind. What if the person driving a multi ton projectile coming behind me at speed, is day dreaming and "didn't see me", even if I'm dressed in bright orange?
Sorry to be so serious about a meme but, yeaaah.
You're totally right, kinda. But isn't your conclusion way more dangerous than actually driving the deadly metal-box yourself? Being a pedestrian or, even worse, cyclist, you're a highly vulnerable squishy flesh-thingy surrounded by deadly murder-boxes.
The safest people out there are bus- and truckdrivers. I mean truck-trucks, not those murican abominations like the rams and f150s and the likes.
Personally, I rarely drive faster than 80kmh (50mph). Even on the highway where people go totally bonkers all the time. We should have a speed-limit on highways....
80km/h is still very fast and dangerous
Sure it is...but on a German highway it would be dangerous to drive slower. Imagine one asswipe coming at you with three tines that speed and couldn't avoid you....also it's the default max speed of trucks and noone really drives behind those. So you're usually in peace and relatively safe.