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There's a few HN threads on this:
anyone who drives a large pick-up truck for non-commercial reasons is a grade A butthole
Key Ideas: Heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants but more dangerous for others: The weight of a vehicle is a critical factor in car crashes, with heavier vehicles causing more fatalities in other cars, pedestrians, and cyclists.
Sounds like a heavier car is actually safer to put me and my loved ones inside, at least for now.
Sounds like it's safest for me and my family to physically prevent you from doing that.
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67 lives per year lol.
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What price can you put on a human life, 25,000?
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they should pay you 25k if you run over a jaywalker
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I'll run over a cyclist for way less than that.
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$2.99 /lb.
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The government just passed a rule mandating all furniture come with wall bolts and meet "tipping standards" because 40 people die annually to falling bookshelves.
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Which is especially strange since Americans can't read
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Humans are terrible at risk management and assessment. Dramatic but rare beats banal but common every time.
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You know how the rest of the world figures that external fire escapes are good enough as a backup measure on buildings. Not the USA. We literally have building codes that cost billions of dollars a year to implement to save less lives than that. It's frikking absurd.
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Shitty fire escapes were to blame for 9/11
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what do yankees have instead?
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Dual egress with the requirement hallways have to be wide enough to accommodate two wheelchairs. One of the escape routes has to be internal and fireproof, its usually cheaper to have both internal.
Its all about keeping the BIPOCs out of white neighborhoods. They can't make policy about that publicly but they just start with the premise of keep darkie down and then work backwards.
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Wait I don't understand how this keeps black people out of white neighborhoods, explain.
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Syntactically, s/black/poor. Semantically, they're the same.
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I am against this because you could far more easily pass policies in other spheres that would save far more lives annually.
I like the idea of going after the < 100 deaths stopped per year policies after we are finished with the < 1000 deaths per year policies. At least keep it linear so that people will actually get used to it.
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They are already attempting to do that with speed limiters (lol).
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cool
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This is just testing the waters. You'll all be driving Fiat Pandas within a decade.
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i wish i could have a fiat panda fr
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For countless man hours to implement this change, I hate the beuracracu like you wouldn't believe
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We gotta pump those numbers up
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