Bad Driving Has Become Normalized

Over 40,000 Americans die each year in traffic collisions and hundreds of thousands are severely injured, but we often brush it off as being the cost of doing business. Car crashes and dangerous driving are seen as unavoidable; an everyday part of modern life. ➜ Follow Me: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flurfdesign Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flurfdesign/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/flurfdesign TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flurfdesign ➜ References & Further Reading: 'Motonormativity': The bias that leads to dangerous driving https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240306-motonormativity-the-bias-that-stops-us-seeing-driving-clearly Motornomativity: How Social Norms Hide a Major Public Health Hazard https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/egnmj The Dangers of Driving Are Way More Normalized Than We Think https://sf.streetsblog.org/2023/01/19/the-dangers-of-driving-are-way-more-normalized-than-we-think Are cars the new tobacco? https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article-abstract/33/2/160/1591440?redirectedFrom=fulltext US Senator quote https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/gop-senator-no-more-than-3-4-of-our-population-may-die.html Pedestrian Fatality Facts 2022 https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedestrians#trends Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267#bb0390 Self-perceptions of driving skills https://www.everquote.com/everdrive/confused-state-of-distracted-driving/ I Am a Better Driver Than You Think: Examining Self-Enhancement for Driving Ability https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3835346/ Speeding is a dangerous ‘new normal’ on U.S. roads https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/22992-speeding-is-a-dangerous-new-normal-on-us-roads-iihs-says Vehicle-Into-Building Crashes 40% Higher Than Previously Thought https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/06/21/vehicle-into-building-crashes-40-higher-than-previously-thought Toronto's speed cameras vandalized 555 times https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-s-speed-cameras-were-vandalized-555-times-over-the-last-year-these-were-the-most-targeted-ones-1.6471341 Parkside Drive crash https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/multi-vehicle-crash-west-end-spring-parkside-toronto-1.6208720 Parkside Drive Study Final Report https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ie/bgrd/backgroundfile-249585.pdf Parkside Drive tops list of Toronto's most ticketed roads https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/parkside-drive-dangerous-speeding-1.6851959 Parkside Drive speed camera cut down again https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/parkside-drive-speed-camera-safety-concerns-1.7398062 Killed by a Traffic Engineer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201978334-killed-by-a-traffic-engineer Confessions of a Recovering Engineer https://www.confessions.engineer/ Speed kills, so why do we keep designing for it? https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/25/speed-kills-so-why-do-we-keep-designing-for-it Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/12/driverless-cars-and-the-cult-of-technology Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aim/ How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0&t=2228s Accident Report: Collision Between AV and Pedestrian https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAR1903.pdf Google's Waymo Asked People To Test Its Semi-Autonomous Car Tech https://jalopnik.com/googles-waymo-asked-people-to-test-its-semi-autonomous-1838068842 2 Killed in Driverless Tesla Car Crash https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/business/tesla-fatal-crash-texas.html Man Riding in Driverless Tesla Is Arrested in California https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.html Elon Musk Doubles Down on Claim About Self-Driving Tech https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-claim-about-self-driving-tech-2019-2 Vision Zero Sweden https://www.roadsafetysweden.com/about-the-conference/vision-zero---no-fatalities-or-serious-injuries-through-road-accidents/ The number of references exceeds the maximum allowed characters. Visit this link to read further: https://pastebin.com/9nZybtXG ➜ Timestamps: 0:00 Motornormativity (Car-Brain) 2:07 The cost of doing business 3:06 Everyone speeds 5:36 Toronto's infamous speed camera 7:02 Car crashes vs airplane crashes 8:26 The cult of technology 10:32 The actual road safety issue 11:53 What the research says 13:01 Safety is not a priority 13:56 Car companies hijacked the streets 15:13 Double standards for bikes 15:59 Car dependency is deadly 17:22 The future of cities 18:24 Driving is the new smoking ➜ Disclaimer: ©2024 Pokémon. ©1995-2024 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. This content has been created in agreement with the Terms of Use for the “Pokémon Game Sound Library”.