Online communities dedicated to criticizing cars and the people who love them have developed an insult that … kind of makes sense.

Posted because r/fuckcars is mentioned

https://archive.is/D4a4Q

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    People don’t calculate risk correctly because we use the wrong baselines. Am I likely to accidentally kill someone while driving my car1? No.

    But: the right baseline to use isn’t ‘How likely am I to accidentally kill someone with my car?’, it’s ‘How likely am I to accidentally kill someone by doing [activity x]?’.

    When ‘activity x’ is ‘driving’, it’s obvious that I’m enormously more likely to kill someone with my car than I am doing almost anything else.

    1 That is, my hypothetical car; I don’t drive.