I’ve been driving for 30 years and I’ve only had one speeding ticket and never had an accident. Squeaky clean driving record.
I probably run over a lot of bugs though.
Wait a minute, why did I join this subreddit? I think it’s because there were five years when I didn’t have a car and I had to walk & run & bicycle everywhere. That was invigorating but exhausting. But I will never forget the humility and gratitude and health of it all and that’s when you really start to notice how most people who drive cars are so arrogant when they’re behind the wheel.
And vehicles are not good for the environment. So I get it.
Shit happens. No one means to hit a pedestrian. Sometimes people with actually clean records hit pedestrians. It’s not called an accident because it was on purpose…
As is the case with every sane driver on the road. All the same, pedestrians are hit by vehicles every day.
With the volume of car travel in the world, it is a statistical certainty that people will make mistakes, be it distraction, complacency, fatigue, whatever the cause. An abundance of these high up, flat-fronted vehicles create a scenario such that WHEN those mistakes DO happen, they’re far more likely to end a life. To suggest that people should just be better drivers is essentially just wishing the problem will solve itself.
I drive a vehicle designed like this.
One of my many priorities is to never hit pedestrians.
why drive a car that makes that priority harder to fulfill?
It’s not hard to not hit pedestrians.
I’ve been driving for 30 years and I’ve only had one speeding ticket and never had an accident. Squeaky clean driving record.
I probably run over a lot of bugs though.
Wait a minute, why did I join this subreddit? I think it’s because there were five years when I didn’t have a car and I had to walk & run & bicycle everywhere. That was invigorating but exhausting. But I will never forget the humility and gratitude and health of it all and that’s when you really start to notice how most people who drive cars are so arrogant when they’re behind the wheel.
And vehicles are not good for the environment. So I get it.
Shit happens. No one means to hit a pedestrian. Sometimes people with actually clean records hit pedestrians. It’s not called an accident because it was on purpose…
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So your record isn’t “squeaky clean” then, is it?
hasty generalization
As is the case with every sane driver on the road. All the same, pedestrians are hit by vehicles every day.
With the volume of car travel in the world, it is a statistical certainty that people will make mistakes, be it distraction, complacency, fatigue, whatever the cause. An abundance of these high up, flat-fronted vehicles create a scenario such that WHEN those mistakes DO happen, they’re far more likely to end a life. To suggest that people should just be better drivers is essentially just wishing the problem will solve itself.