cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/movies@piefed.social/p/2226457/deaf-actress-kaylee-hottle-who-played-jia-in-godzilla-vs-kong-and-godzilla-x-kong-the-n

The FHWA has not publicly announced or explained the decision to cut the list of safety strategies from 28 items to the current total of 23.

• Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20260101053236/https://highways.dot.gov/safety/proven-safety-countermeasures
• After: https://web.archive.org/web/20260717205718/https://highways.dot.gov/safety/proven-safety-countermeasures

When I was living in Austin TX I had a full beer thrown at me from a lifted truck. I was just walking, and he screamed "Get a job you homeless piece of shit". If he was smart enough to get his truck to roll coal he would have done that too. I was pissed. Flipped him off. Full fight mode. Bro pulled into the parking lot of a nearby strip mall but sped off when he realized I was serious about fighting him. I was absolutely serious, and would have died in that parking lot if that was what God willed. Here's the thing though, I had a car, a nice car, a brand new sports car even. I had a job, a good job, a side hustle, and I was doing drops, which means I was the plug son. I paid rent. By every metric I was not the person he was trying to target. I was just walking to the Planet K that wasn't even a half-mile from my apartment complex. Normal shit. Walking is a revolutionary act. Because I was walking I was seen as less than, unhuman. It was a deeply radicalizing thing.

I haven't had a car in over two years. I walk everywhere, dozens of miles a week. Gas prices should be like 11 dollars a gallon, I don't give a fuck.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1ux4ojg/the_comments_on_any_video_involving_a_bicycle_are/

I hate them both equaly

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/fuckcars/p/1235268/vehicle-pollution-responsible-for-41800-deaths-23100-asthma-cases-in-the-u-s-every-year

Post your name, have a post history here and i'll mod you.

The physics of being hit by a tall car are gruesome. With a standard sedan, which has a hood height of around two and a half feet, a pedestrian who gets struck straight-on gets flung onto the hood. While perilously acrobatic, hoods are designed to absorb impacts and cushion the pedestrian’s fall.

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Federal researchers at the Transportation Department’s Volpe Center, for example, warned that taller cars with their bigger blind zones were killing hundreds of pedestrians and cyclists every year back in 2022. But as the reporting notes, it still receives far less attention than other road safety issues like drunk driving. And those federal researchers say their warnings were ignored.

“There was just zero acknowledgement of the problem,” Angie Byrne, a former Volpe Center employee who was involved in the research, told the NYT.

If you drive a pickup like this, you have made an arbitrary choice to kill the next person you accidentally hit.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/fuckcars/p/1213099/experts-lead-call-for-tougher-restrictions-on-suvs-as-public-fail-to-understand-risks-of

Even after being told that SUVs pose increased risks to vulnerable road users, just 3.6% of people who intended to buy or lease an SUV as their next car said they would change their mind.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.zip/post/66129061

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

Summarises car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices.

1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year.

Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.

Car harm will continue unless policies change; example interventions are discussed.