Hemlock Autumn: Fair. — Subium • Bluesky web client

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

Also: driver hits/kills child Endless readers: pop up to comment about how child was idiot who clearly had no idea how to cross a street

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

cars should be physically limited to max 50mph on the highway, max 25mph in cities and towns and I'm not joking

*squints* 80km per hour and 40km? Ok, why not 120km and 50 outside of housing estates?

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.

Fair.

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