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Source of the chart - Plane vs. car safety: America has the world's safest air travel but is so bad at car safety - Vox

Three tweet thread...

A key reason is Americans love BIG HEAVY vehicles. "The average weight of a new vehicle sold in the United States last year was a whopping 4,329 pounds." You get hit by one of these monsters as a pedestrian, cyclist, you die.

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[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty sure air safety is only safest in America because most of the foreign commercial airliners that have crashed are probably due to the ClA

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