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Empty of even dust bunnies. "Ryan Cooper of The Week does not like pickup trucks because conservatives drive them. He aired them on Twitter. Conservatives straightened him out. Cooper tweeted, "Sales of mega-pickups, which have basically been deliberately designed to intimidate and kill pedestrians, are booming. The trend of 6-foot grilles that create massive blind spots and pull people under to be crushed when they are hit is 100 percent a marketing gimmick. Hundreds of conservatives here doing their best to demonstrate that yes, huge trucks are about postmodern culture war signaling and unsubtle Freudian neurosis. A light truck can be a useful tool, and I have owned one myself. making the grille 6 feet high so you can't see if you are running over your kid does not make it more useful. it does the opposite." Really? They design pickup tricks to kill pedestrians?" Jeff Vader thought a device like that in the photo below would be an improvement to the idea. It looks like it would do the trick. The discussion then drops into a factual analysis of which kills more pickup trucks or buses. But the last real preditor of humans is light rail; light rail is Rex when it comes to killing on a per passenger mile basis. "According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 40 people were killed in light-rail accidents in 2012. This is the most since at least 1992 (the earliest year for which I have numbers available). While the numbers vary from year to year, in all the years since 1995, light-rail accidents killed 333 people.A few days ago, the Antiplanner mentioned that auto accidents kill about 34,000 people a year. That sounds horrible, and it is, but unlike light-rail numbers, auto fatalities have been declining. More important, light rail carried just 26.7 billion passenger miles in all the years between 1995 and 2012. By comparison, highway vehicles traveled nearly 3 trillion vehicle miles in 2012 alone. At an average occupancy of 1.67 people per car (see page 33), that’s 5 trillion passenger miles. In other words, light rail kills 12.5 people for every billion passenger miles carried, whereas buses kill just 4.5 people per billion passenger miles. Urban roads and streets, by comparison, kill about 8.2 people per billion vehicle miles, which works out to 4.9 per billion passenger miles. While buses are slightly safer than cars, light rail is 2-1/2 times more dangerous than cars." Light Rail Increasingly Dangerous Perhaps the reason progressives love light rail is its fatality rates. The progressives have, for decades, complained about overpopulation after all.
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