craneplaneguy
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Chalo said:craneplaneguy said:One thing about modern cars, electric or ICE powered, they are WAY safer then cars even 10 years ago, much less 20, 30 or more. The added safety features are a major cause of weight gain though. I read the accident reports religiously, and it's pretty amazing the spectacular wrecks that people more or less walk away from nowadays.
I think the thing that would make human-driven cars safer for those who aren't in one is to make them radically less safe for the driver. Let the passenger have an airbag, sure. But the driver should only have a long pointy spike sticking out of the steering wheel. That's basically the situation they put the rest of us in, and we don't even get a say in it.
Giving so much protection to the very people who choose to make the roads deadly is unethical.
Well then, if that's how you think, take all the food out of your fridge, the clothes off your back, and just about everything else in your home, and throw it all out in the street. In fact, move out of your home INTO the street, no.... that street was built by a vehicle society and infrastructure, so you have to move into a field somewhere. You have just wished death and injury on the infrastructure that brought you all of that. from now on, just buy and use the items delivered to you (and your local providers of EVERYTHING) by bicycle.
Don't get me wrong, things need to change, but wishing cars and trucks were more dangerous to achieve that is just wrong. If you want the lifestyle that entails, maybe you should consider moving to a grass hut in Africa somewhere, as some there can along just fine without the dependence on ICE powered vehicles, but they don't have the standard of living, the mod cons, we do. You bitch about it, but I bet you wouldn't give up much. You seem like a pretty sharp guy, but that was just an asinine statement. I enjoy your posts, and really respect your bike knowledge, but until you're living in a field, (with no shelter, as even a plastic tarp is a product of what you hate and wish ill towards) carrying your water in a bucket ( oops, no bucket either, you'll have to weave one) and only eating what you personally gather, you are just being a hypocrite. Again, it's a screwed up system, but its the one we have to deal with, and I don't pretend I am somehow out of it like you seem to do. I'm driving 60 miles tomorrow, to do crane work on a grain mill that supplies wheat for edible uses, and I'm damn glad to have air bags. Some of that wheat might end up in your mouth, you're welcome.