safety

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/5/2023
  

  "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads

  For more than a century people have made excuses for the death and dismemberment caused by automobiles as if it were a phenomenon of nature. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  

  Could the Infrastructure Bill End Drunk Driving?

  Technology historian John Mohr says that mandates for driver-monitoring tech could make it nearly impossible for an impaired driver to start and operate a car. The question is whether the auto industry will follow a historical pattern of resisting safety mandates or see them as a chance to innovate. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  8/17/2022
  

  Documentary Shows the Choices that Led to Deadly Streets

  Blaming distraction—by drivers, pedestrians or cyclists—for climbing road fatalities is a cop-out, says Jennifer Boyd. Americans need to be willing to question the basic design of roads and the priority they give to moving cars fast if they are serious about reducing road deaths. 

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  Statistically, It's Never Been Safer to Be Black in America. But That Doesn't Mean Black People are Safe from White Violence.

  by Ian Reifowitz

  A black person today is half as likely to be murdered as a black person in 1980. But when the murderer of Trayvon Martin walks free, and the murderer of Jordan Davis is not convicted of his gravest crime, it's naive to think race doesn't matter.

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• Terrorism in the Workplace

  by David Patten

  Strikers in Ludlow, Colorado, 1914. Credit: Wiki Commons.In Bangladesh, more than six hundred workers died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza with hundreds more still missing and presumed dead. We must be shocked by this tragedy, but not at all surprised.