• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Yes. And if you had infrastructure, they could have done that trip on a high speed train instead of you having to drive.

    • JareeZy@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      What’s the argument here? That because you drive twice as far, it is expected you run over twice as many people?

    • icanwatermyplants@reddthat.com
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      9 months ago

      Keep in mind that traffic in the US is simply more dangerous then in Europe. Traffic in the US consist of a large number of pick up trucks which are heavy and not designed to be friendly to other traffic in an accident. There are more factors, but my key takeaway is accidents versus deadly accidents.

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      9 months ago

      Why are they so far away? There is logic to what you’re saying, according to this website Americans drive on average twice as far as Italians/Germans etc. so if you scale by that America is still slightly higher but not as bad.