I have read plenty of articles about how The Kids Today don’t play outside anymore, but would like to read one about how the olds today want to sic the cops on them the moment they step outside
I sincerely hate cars. Everything about the contemporary culture concerning cars is just disgusting. Somehow US has it on steroids with the gigantic cars, miniscule space for everybody else and so on
Mostly I picked the figures based on the point where accidents become much more likely to be fatal. At 40km/h a pedestrian getting hit has a 40% fatality rate, but at 50km/h it's 90%. Kinetic energy goes up quadratically with velocity so even a small increase in speed makes a dramatic difference.