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The Car-Crash Conspiracy (www.newyorker.com)
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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Large trucks account for five per cent of the vehicles in the United States but play a role in ten per cent of fatal accidents.

How many accidents happen with parked cars? Yet they’re the majority of vehicles. Not to defend the American trucking industry; it’s a disaster and there’s no way that heavy trucks would be allowed on roads if they were suddenly invented today.

ETA: finished the article. The above quote really is tangential to the point of the article. It’s a great read. The lengths people go to for money is astounding.

[-] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

The lengths people go to for money is astounding.

Yeah, by the end, the clear issue is the ratios affecting the poor. Brutal, heartbreaking.

[-] misk@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

there’s no way that heavy trucks would be allowed on roads if they were suddenly invented today.

There’d be some big tech corpo that would build a billion of them at once, connect them to the internet and pretend they’re just extra large electric scooters until they were so ubiquitous that the public couldn’t imagine banning them.

[-] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That was a great read! Nice to see such high quality journalism!

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