Via Dinosaur Comics
Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year
By Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Collectors Weekly
There’s an open secret in America: If you want to kill someone, do it with a car. As long as you’re sober, chances are you’ll never be charged with any crime, much less manslaughter.
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Within a decade, the number of car collisions and fatalities skyrocketed. In the first four years after World War I, more Americans died in auto accidents than had been killed during battle in Europe, but our legal system wasn’t catching on. The negative effects of this unprecedented shift in transportation were especially felt in urban areas, where road space was limited and pedestrian habits were powerfully ingrained.
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Eventually, the term spread to all types of automobile drivers, along with pejoratives like “vampire driver” or “death driver.” Political cartoons featured violent imagery of so-called “speed demons” murdering innocents as they plowed through city streets in their uncontrollable vehicles. Other editorials accused drivers of being afflicted with “motor madness” or “motor rabies,” which implied an addiction to speed at the expense of human life.
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"The Safest Place" 1935 Chevrolet Film About Car Safety
https://youtu.be/WSfdMdpH32U
[Note: I get from this is that your "living room surrounded by steel" would be the safest place to be if it were not for other drivers… So that’s why we are so laxed of traffic law enforcement?]
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/murder-machines/
Bmore Bikes Cars Favored Over Bikes in District 1
B’ Spokes: A must read if you support bicycling in Baltimore.
Basically it starts of with a victory with the Southeast Baltimore Complete Streets Master Plan.
Then it starts to get nibbled away,
https://www.bmorebikes.com/cars-favored-over-bikes-in-district-1/
I want to be a nurse that keeps hitting cyclists with my car.
B’ Spokes: My headline here is over the top but we need to do something about the cavalier culture surrounding the so called right to drive regardless of the consequences. The last time I checked over 20% of all bike/ped fatalities was a hit-and-run. This needs to stop!
Rachel Anna Buckler, 23, entered an Alford plea to have her sentence from a 2011 hit-and-run and death of Port Tobacco cyclist Thomas Roepcke reconsidered.
Read about it here: https://www.somdnews.com/article/20140228/NEWS/140229177/sentence-in-death-of-bicyclist-stands&template=southernMaryland
It’s about transportation
This is not about recreation; it’s about transportation–about people using their bikes to get where they need to go. We’re talking about making sure, when someone’s only or best option to get to work is a bike, that they have an option to ride it, and ride it in safety. https://1.usa.gov/1e1vABP