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[DMC]

All good questions.

Since you ask, I have never much considered the answers to any of them.

I think we sacrifice far too many people on the bloody car altar, quite frankly. 30,000+ dead per year is far in excess of what I am willing to pay.

Seems to me that we could spend about as much money on trains and changing zoning to make cities dense enough for that to be a bit more economical and we could avoid the economic losses.

Assuming each one of those people had $20,000/year jobs, that is $600,000,000 in lost GDP every year... ulative. $600M this year, pluse $600M next year...

Sure we get a lot of economic activity relating to cars, but I honestly wonder if the sheer loss of human life, injuries, and trauma makes up for it.

People die on trains as well.

[RandomGuy]

People die on trains as well.

Yes they do. No form of transportation is risk-free.

Since you seem so dead set on pointing out the obvious, it might be interesting to look into the stats.

[boutons_deux]

People die on trains as well.

Therefore, since more people die in road transport, we should ban road transport?

how about first dropping the blood alcohol limit to 0.04 with mandatory loss of license for 1 year for 1st offense?

(can't do it. BigAlcohol buys politicians to block it)