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Are these the values from one specific year? If yes, the statistical error would be massive, especially for the cities <50k. The value of 73/100k in Dayton means, that ~7 people died, which could easily be caused by a single incident. So it might be the case that Dayton is generally a safe city, but it was just a really bad year for them. You'd have to look at multiple years to be able to see a pattern.

Where I'm from, drivers are sitting in sound proofed boxes called cars. The newer the car, the better the sound isolation. So unless the taxi was a convertible, the comparison is invalid.

When I'm wearing my headphones I can easily understand someone talking to me. When I'm sitting in my car I don't hear a word when someone is talking outside the door.

It makes a huge difference if you yourself are paying attention, which seems hard wearing headphones.

What about the driver? Did he listen to the radio? If it seems so hard to pay attention while wearing headphones, why is it still allowed to sell car radios?

wearing high-viz clothing [...] how little people are aware of blind spots

How does wearing high-viz clothing help you when you are in a blind spot? And why does no one ask which colour the taxi was? Was it high-viz or maybe gray or black like most cars?

Thank you!

Can't even watch this without creating an account. 😑

Japan finds solutions, America finds excuses.

You have enough taxpayers to build 26 lane highways in California, but you're telling me you don't have enough money to build a 2 lane HSR?

In fact we use Saarland as the official measuring unit. One Saarland is ≈ 43 Manhattans. Or, to be more precise, one Manhattan is 23 Millisaarlands.

Every adapter I had was broken after a year or less. I imagine if you keep them attached to your phone, they'll break even faster. Do these adapters exist with a 90° angle which might help preventing broken cables?

Not really in the spirit of reducing waste.

On first glance I thought this could have been a two way road with trees in the middle and they closed one way for this pedestrian area.

But it actually was some kind of parking lot/access street. The actual Rue de Meaux continues straight on while what we're looking at is just a 100m long off-branch.

Plot twist: They're all working there, they are just getting a coffee on the way to their job.

It's not just the hood. A Ford Transit has a smaller wheelbase, a smaller track and a lower ground clearance than an F250. The smallest F250 engine I could find has 405hp, more than a full sized German fire truck, the biggest Transit engine has 310hp. They're clearly not built on the same platform. Noone would use a Ford Transit flatbed for their daily commute, and noone would do this to a Ford Transit flatbed either. Because they're not the same type of car.

I don't doubt that deaths by cars aren't taken seriously. I doubt that deaths by guns are.

Btw. if you're willing to prevent deaths in either of these cases, you should actually work on preventive measures instead of penalizing after the killing. As the diagram above clearly shows, even harsh punishments don't prevent gun crimes, so what makes you think it would work for car crimes?

What you could do instead is:

• Separate gun owners/drivers from other people (don't allow carrying guns through the town/protected bike lanes)
• Reduce the number of people who feel the need to own a gun/car (build strong and safe communities/build fast and safe public transit)
• Disallow owning extremely dangerous weapons (automatic rifles/pickup trucks)
• Require intensive training and background checks before allowing people to own a gun/car
• Take away the gun license/drivers license from offenders
• If you really have to put people in prison make sure they'll get re-socialized in prison instead of breeding even worse criminals
• ...