This. Breaking shitposting character for a second. Automobile accidents are totally normalized in this country and it's fucking awful. 40,000 people die every year and it's just accepted as fact. 30 people a day due to DUIs.

We're so ingrained in car culture that every time there's even a conversation about focusing on alternate modes of transportation, people get enraged BUT MUH ROADS! Want to install a bike lane on a road? "NO WAY, THAT'S GONNA MAKE MY COMMUTE 30 SECONDS LONGER." Want to tear down a garage to build much needed housing? "BUT WHERE ARE WE GOING TO PARK! I NEED PARKING!"

Car companies have lobbied and changed the narrative so much that drivers are rarely to blame. It's never "car strikes pedestrian," "car kills pedestrian." It's "pedestrian struck by car," "pedestrian killed by vehicle." As if the 3,000 lb machine going 45 MPH had nothing to do with it. It's then further propagated by people like /u/roadsterfan who find one or two articles where the pedestrian or the cyclist was at fault and his/her kind all point their fingers and say "SEE, LOOK THAT PEDESTRIAN DID BAD. HIS FAULT. DRIVERS ARE PERFECT." When you're in a car and another driver does something bad, THAT driver is an asshole. If you're in a car and a pedestrian does something bad, or a cyclist does something bad, ALL pedestrians or ALL cyclists are bad. It's a terrible double standard.

Cars are horribly dangerous when driven carelessly and they're used with such apathy.

Back to shiposting character.

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