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They were as bad, but there weren’t so many. Most of them weren’t “activated” yet.

Yeah, it sounds like the kind of thing you could do but would pay out the butt for as a private service. Road map books and asking directions were my go-to.

Of course, post-internet but pre-GPS there was always mapquest.

You are absolutely right that cars are heavier now, which means they are putting more energy into a collision, but cars are also better at dissipating that energy. I don’t actually know enough to know what wins in that face-off. You could very well be right. I’d defer to someone with more expertise in collisions.

Number of cars. Increase the number of cars, you increase the number of deaths. But any given collision is more likely to be survivable than in the past.

Also, it’s not a perfect analog, but a quick search for deer hits and you can see modern cars crumple just fine.

Don’t get me wrong… I’m not saying this deer was out dancing that very night, but if you’re gonna hit me at 30 MPH with either a flat, unyielding piece of steel with potentially sharp edges and/or rusted spots, or a soft piece of plastic or fiberglass formed to cushion my impact into the engine where the REALLY hard parts are, I’m going to choose the plastic/fiberglass every time.

Edit: Here. Just to back up the information I’m giving you…

The ABSOLUTE number of deaths are increasing, because the number of people and cars are increasing. But as a function of percentage of population they are only slightly above the lowest they’ve been since the 20’s. Modern cars are much safer. Even a bad SUV with horrible visibility is safer to all involved in a crash than an average car in the early 80’s. The numbers don’t lie.

Source

Edit again: To give pedestrian numbers to go with that:

You do have a point… there ARE increases in recent years, but overall the rate is still nearly half of the rate in the 80s. You are correct the most very recent trend is worrying, however.

Don’t forget the inability of the rich to keep you in poverty wages when there aren’t 50 people waiting to replace you at every job!

Totally viable as an option if that’s the goal.

If that’s New Zealand’s goal, they should do exactly the same.

But if they’re looking for a balance between risk and convenience, there’s factors to be considered that the article glosses over.

If you get the opportunity. It’s just as likely the impact of the all-steel frame with no crumple actually bisects your body right in half, or crushes your internal organs to paste.

Rolling over a hood is “better” because it consumes energy. Everything about mitigating a crash impact is about putting as much of the energy of the impact as possible somewhere other than a human body. You don’t get the opportunity to do that at all if the initial impact is rigid. It’s putting all that collision energy directly into you.

It is - both things can be true. There are certainly some types of vehicles and conditions that are less safe than others, often for unjustifiable and stupid reasons, but the general trend of the average vehicle over time is towards being much safer than in the past. You’d still rather be hit by an SUV with a crumple zone than a sedan with an all steel body, all else being equal.

It’s also worth noting the current speed limits were set in 1985. I know this is the wrong place to point it out, and I do hate cars, but acknowledge they have value for some use cases. That said…

Since 1985, car safety evolution has introduced: -Traction Control -Anti-lock Brakes -Airbags -Electronic Stability Control -Crumple Zones -Adaptive Cruise Control -Blind spot detection -Pedestrian detection

…just to name a few. Cars are safer now than they’ve ever been, for both drivers and pedestrians (the Cybertruck not withstanding), so it’s equally strange to suggest that the same speed limit that was set in the mid-80s is the best balance of convenience and safety. If it’s simply a matter of reduction in absolute terms, why not LOWER the speed limit?

Not saying the article’s premise is wrong, but it’s kneejerk. In fact, smartly using speed limits can help to push traffic into out of the way areas where it will be less problematic to pedestrians. For example, lowering the speed limits in pedestrian areas in cities and increasing them less dense, outer areas can both improve traffic flow and make dense spaces more pedestrian friendly by diverting traffic into roads with fewer people. And intercity traffic through areas with little to no pedestrian traffic is a no-brainer.

That only works if you manage to make it there without hating YOURSELF.

I mean, it would make sense.

The only way a conspiracy theorist can be swayed is if being right isn’t a win condition. If there’s no other person to feel better than when you’re debating, something might actually sink in.

I know the cultural context and respect it as different from my own.

But it will never stop being viscerally disgusting to my personal sensibilities.

Every time I just suck it up. Pun intended.

Ramen. And they are slurping like an 85 year old man who hasn’t had to care in 6 decades.

Oh, I do. It isn’t easy. But all it takes for evil to win is for good to do nothing.

It’s not that I don’t sympathize, but that IS what happened. The platform is no longer something you can use without carrying that weight. You just can’t. Yes, it sucks for them, but people’s workflows and ability to do their jobs get disrupted all the time. Factories shut down. Industries get replaced.

Yes, the work is hard, and yes it isn’t their fault that this happened. But life isn’t fair. The fact is staying with this platform is delivering income to a man who who is running his own judicial review of the laws of democratic countries, just threatened to rape Taylor Swift on an international platform, and thinks the world should be run by incels. Absolutely NO amount of “But I’d have to find a new audience…” changes that. I understand it isn’t easy, but sometimes doing the right thing is hard. That doesn’t mean you get a pass to not do it. If making the right decisions were easy and involved no personal sacrifice, everyone would do it all the time.

You know what? You’re right. No artist was able to make a living before Twitter. I don’t know what I was thinking.

Here, let’s wrap this up.

1. Some people are making money on Twitter. The vast, vast majority are not. It’s easily thousands to one. Those thousands of people have absolutely no argument.

2. Those that are making a living have a choice to make… continue being hostage to and supporting a platform that actively makes the world worse using the money they obtain from their support, or find an audience the old fashioned way. If you are talented, your audience will find you. I don’t buy that you NEED a particular platform. I don’t begrudge someone who is making money their decision to stay and keep making it, but you don’t get out of it with a squeaky clean “oh well, it is what it is”. There are professionals who work for shit companies that do awful things because they understand the evil crap they’re supporting and they’ve accepted that they will be judged for that activity, and the income is their compensation for it. Anyone who stays on Twitter for a living should be prepared for the same judgement. But if that’s the case, I hope they’re making enough to make it worth it.

/S

You have to keep posting to Twitter because that’s where the people are

No, you don’t. Screw Twitter and the people still on it.

These things have a lagging indicator. You don’t see these feelings increase when the problems happen - you see them when people lose faith that they’re temporary.