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sergeial t1_itx0fye wrote

Reply to comment by Oregon687 in [OC] Number of road deaths per 100k motor vehicles per year by scottpaulin

Yeah, I feel like we could do a lot more and make urban planning choices and regulatory choices that don't see ANY traffic fatalities or mutilations as "just the cost of doing business". But it's important to remember that the developing world needs help with this stuff even moreso

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685327594 t1_itx1t7h wrote

It's pretty easy to reduce road deaths, you just have to get people to slow down. Risk of death increases exponentially with speed. Unfortunately few people are actually on board with stricter enforcement of speed limits. Maybe increasing penalties for texting while driving would work similar to how DUI laws were increased a few decades ago?

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sergeial t1_iu19gny wrote

There's so much that can be done with urban planning to slow people down. We build for speed, not slowness

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