Originally posted by John E
It is indeed a sad commentary on our society that 40K people killed per year on our roads is "acceptable." That's the equivalent of one 9/11 per month or three TWA Flight 800s per week.
I once noticed that the amount of people killed per year by the auto is similar to the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam war. Now didn't people protest in droves about the needless deaths of our young people then? Why does no one protest needless automotive deaths? Maybe it's okay if people die if we're having FUN! I suppose the president was having fun in 1970...
And simultaneously, why do people who claim to be nice humans, or even GASP peace loving hippies, drive like homicidal maniacs knowing they could kill another driver, one of their passengers, a pedestrian, a biker, a kid etc.? It's a weird phenomenon - we could never get away with walking like that.
And to bring this back to the thread...
Didn't someone once say, "Frankly, the steering wheel is just in the way."
Clay