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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"Wassa matter with you? you blind?!" "Yes."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a study about the same thing but with bees?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Did someone say beans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“It’s a messy situation, but generally it’s very safe and it works well,”

Reminds me of the traffic situation in eastern Asia. Huge amounts of cars, scooters etc. mostly ignoring any traffic rules. From an outside perspective it looks like there must be thousands of injuries a day but considering the vast amount of individuals it's still pretty safe and efficient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Traffic deaths in Thailand are 60 per 100.000 vehicles. In the Netherlands is 6. It's 10 times a deadly...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's 27 in mississippi, so only about twice as deadly.

Edit, actually, let's revisit the data. You said 60 per 100000 vehicles, if you shift that to population, the data point I used, it becomes 32. Only slightly more deadly than living in the southern US

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I think that says a lot about Mississippi

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My Dad has experienced traffic like this. He said having strict rules is often worse because you expect others to follow the rules and then they don't, people die. There's a sort of complacency involved with rigid rules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Complacency and entitlement. Like letting a guy merge into you instead of evading because “well he was supposed to yield!” People will fully crash their car if they think they’re “right”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yea, looks like it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEPX4z4KBw#t=5m24s