Dave Lane 🇳🇿 on Nostr: The increase in car sizes over the past 50 years seems to be mostly justified by ...
The increase in car sizes over the past 50 years seems to be mostly justified by measures to increase *passenger* safety. Everyone else, however, becomes less safe. A more collective approach to improving transport safety - while also focusing on sustainability - would focus on making vehicles *smaller and lighter*. The perverse incentives of individualistic capitalism need to be counteracted.
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