Comment by genghisjahn
5 days ago
Cars are a lot safer now. People routinely walk away from collisions that would have killed everyone in the vehicle back in 70s. So there is some gain to the trade off.
5 days ago
Cars are a lot safer now. People routinely walk away from collisions that would have killed everyone in the vehicle back in 70s. So there is some gain to the trade off.
Not if you're a pedestrian.
According to this, pedestrians were dropping until around 2007, which I believe was the year of the iPhone. One could posit that distracted walking has increased pedestrian fatalities since 2007 and not car size.
https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/deta...
"Cars are a lot safer now" does not seem related to "40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car" to me.