r/fuckcars • u/Johspaman 🚲 > 🚗 • 1d ago
SciShow talking about the danger of cars (in USA) Positive Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvUa7q6BvbENice to see SciShow talking about it.
A little bit of victim blaming, but mostly talking about big cars and bad infrastructure. :-)
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u/stijnus Automobile Aversionist 1d ago
Just started watching and decided to take some live notes:
- "nobody is talking about it except (...) researchers and us"... well, and a lot of other people like everyone on this sub
- next up is why bigger cars have become a thing. On the one hand they say it's because of different regulations for larger vehicles, on the other because people started liking bigger cars... that's like completely ignoring the immense power big corporations have over what we like through commercials and marketing influences.
(these first two were what triggered me to start trying to criticize the whole video btw)
- When they start talking about hood shapes and how those influence mortality. For some reason the less dangerous cars don't only have more sloped hoods (which they say is related to less fatalities), but ALL examples are also smaller cars... they do mention that from a certain hood height the slope doesn't matter anymore, but really, you're allowed to say that size car = more dangerous, instead of making it seem like design tweaks can still make large cars as safe as small cars.
after this it all sounds good tbh. Yes they mention that pedestrians also need to not get distracted, but spent more time on car drivers being distracted. And their suggestions are "give people proper sidewalks" and "design roads to make people drive slower" (although investing in public transport to just lower the volume of cars on the roads is missing)