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Originally Posted by Jinto
The modern marvel of mobility is quite costly ("Road accidents in China killed at least 65,000 people last year, and injured 254,000, according to official figures.")... and western people are scared of terror attacks  |
Western people (using the US as a prime example) .... utterly *fail* at risk analysis.
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Originally Posted by NHTSA
there are about 43,000 people killed in fatal car accidents each year in the United States. Roughly, 40 percent of the fatal crashes are alcohol-related. In addition to fatal accidents, about 2.9 million people are injured each year.
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Obviously a clear and present danger that far exceeds many relatively minor risks that those people have anxiety attacks about (being shot, being bombed, etc) .... yet each year those people and their leaders fight and balk at solutions that would save tens of thousands of lives (like drunk driving laws, seatbelt compliance, mass transit, etc). Oh well...