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This is one of the reasons I hate driving. Its a crazy dangerous thing to do. Its insane to me it became the standard because convenience.
Not just standard, but a load-bearing component to keeping your job, which translates to food, shelter, health care, social connections, maybe residency…
And many workplaces have very low tolerance for being late.
So every morning, you’re surrounded by thousands of people who — in order to avoid life-threatening unemployment — woke up 10 minutes ago and immediately started operating heavy equipment beyond safe parameters.
I'm stunned there aren't more wrecks. OTOH, about the same amount of people die in car wrecks vs. guns in America, and the vast majority of guns deaths aren't random. I'm far more afraid of dying behind the wheel.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
im more afraid of killing behind the wheel.
Me too! I can kill you with a gun, but I won't. One slip and I could take out a whole family. Shit's scary!
It could be so much worse.