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Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year

"At some point, we decided that somebody on a bike or on foot is not traffic, but an obstruction to traffic."“If you look at newspapers fr...

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Hasnain says:

As someone who saw way more than his fair share of car accidents growing up ... this rings true.

"In 2012, automobile collisions killed more than 34,000 Americans, but unlike our response to foreign wars, the AIDS crisis, or terrorist attacks—all of which inflict fewer fatalities than cars—there’s no widespread public protest or giant memorial to the dead. We fret about drugs and gun safety, but don’t teach children to treat cars as the loaded weapons they are."

Posted on 2014-03-14T07:20:22+0000