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throwawaysscc t1_jefwi7f wrote

Reply to comment by Miles_vel_Day in traffic cameras on major highways by Maleficent-Ad6523

Too much hurry and distraction. Driving a car so simplifies modern life that few regard driving as a deadly serious activity rife with potential terrifying consequences. Every message from manufacturers is happy, dandy, freedom and power themed. Car culture has us all conditioned to overlook death and destruction daily and internalize it as an acceptable result of cars everywhere. As a pedestrian, biker and transit rider, it’s infuriating.

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Miles_vel_Day t1_jefwyki wrote

That makes me think of another problem with car culture, that's kind of the mirror image of the phenomenon you're describing...

Like you said, a lot of people just forget driving is dangerous. But for people who haven't forgotten, we just get used to living at a certain level of life-or-death stress, for possibly hours a day, when we're in our cars. I don't think it's very conducive to overall happiness.

Don't get me wrong, driving is a really easy game, and it's fun to play sometimes, but the consequences of slipping up and losing can be pretty rough.

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