The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. Conversely, seatbelt use was down, resulting in thousands of injuries to unrestrained drivers and passengers. After a decade of steady decline, intoxicated-driving arrests had rebounded to near historic highs.

… The relationship between car size and injury rates is still being studied, but early research on the American appetite for horizon-blotting machinery points in precisely the direction you’d expect: The bigger the vehicle, the less visibility it affords, and the more destruction it can wreak.

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    If killing every goddamn mammal on this planet and letting the octopi take over is the price we pay for liberty, so be it.

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      10 months ago

      In case you forgot, we’re mammals too. The only freedom you’re rushing towards is the freedom of death, but at least we get big vroom vroom sound make happy on the way

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      10 months ago

      That’s probably the most pathetic thing I’ve read on Lemmy so far. Kudos on sharing, I guess - I wouldn’t humiliate myself in public this way for sure.

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      Everyone else was making the same joke, why did you get the downvotes?