Everything about American cities makes more sense when you realize they are designed entirely for cars to go fast. That is the sole metric and everything is optimized to sure cars can go as fast as possible no matter the cost, both literal and less tangible.
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The Fire Next time changed my view of America and people in general. It’s an incredible work and James is one of the best writers of America.
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rimbo789 commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
Maybe Helsinki isn’t special: just fewer cars. And they apparently only 21% of daily trips used a private car.
Helsinki has about 3x fewer vehicles per capita than the average U.S. city. So it’s not surprising it’s safer since fewer cars mean fewer chances of getting hit by one. Plus their cars are much smaller.
In fact, there are probably plenty of U.S. towns and cities with similar number of cars that have zero traffic deaths (quick search says that Jersey City, New Jersey has zero traffic deaths in 2022).
So maybe it’s not about urban planning genius or Scandinavian magic. Maybe it’s just: fewer things that can kill you on the road.
I wonder how the numbers will change when majority of cars are autonomous.
Itll for sure get worse once most cars are autonomous and are programmed badly
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“ Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley”
I first heard him when I was 13: it was mind blowing. Can’t wait to show my kids
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Every CEO I’ve worked for could have been replaced with a bot that randomly spat out “yes” or “no” to questions and the company would have either been improved or stayed the same.
Take the Evergiven. It can fit ~20k containers. A “quick” check each going 2 minutes would add 40k minutes to loading, or 667 hours or 27 days. A month basically.
In a world where time is money no way they are checking all containers.