I’ve seen a lot of people wearing all dark clothing at night while walking their dog or jogging. I was told growing up not to do that. I guess they don’t teach that anymore?
People do that here and get really annoyed when they step off the curb into 30mph traffic and tires squeal and people narrowly avoid hitting them, lol. Meanwhile, I either wait until the car is past, or make direct eye contact with the driver while I'm under a streetlight. Sometimes wear bright colors too.
One of these days, someone is gonna get plowed over by the 80,000,000 lb electric streetcar, which cannot stop as quickly. People on bikes and scooters always run the red lights too, adding to the problem, despite there being red lights specifically for bikes so that people don't get struck. It's a mess. We need gates to keep people out of harms way :P
Night is when the sun is on the other side of the planet. Night is dark
But is night becoming darker since 2010?
Yes
Is always darker before the dawn
Interesting article. I skimmed it so maybe I missed this, but my first thought was that the population is aging, and older people have more trouble driving at night. I'm 60 and I am definitely impaired at night, so I avoid driving after dark if at all possible.
I haven't read it yet, but the first thing I noticed was the graph starts heading upward just after the 2008 financial crisis. More people working extra or odd shifts, more people doing without cars, more people driving tired and stressed ...
A second and better thought: it's the US obsession with ever-increasing ~~penis substitutes~~ SUV and truck sizes. With a smaller vehicle, when you get hit, you roll over the hood and off to the side. With a bigger vehicle, you go underneath, run over by a much heavier vehicles, she potentially dragged. There are also bigger blind spots and, from my experience driving near matter SUVs and pickups, their drivers are often just right fucking oblivious to the outside world, or fucking entitled, driving like they own the road and everyone else is obligated to get out of their way.
My other thought was that the rise of Android auto and apple carplay have really driven a move to large bright displays in the car that both kill your night vision and provide a nice distraction when you look down to check on the GPS or what song is playing or whatever.
I think it is a combination of all of those things. Phones, infotainment systems, driven by overworked and tired people driving ever larger cars.
@athos77 this seems like the most plausible explanation.
Post GFC funding cuts to enforcement of drunk driving laws might be a related factor.
We have no infrastructure in place for pedestrians across most of the US. Combine that with laws on land ownership ranging from arresting trespassers to shooting them on sight, the only legal place to walk is usually a road. And even then that’s a stretch.
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Archive always thinks I'm a robot. I check the box as not a robot, complete the captcha and then it just repeats the process. Must be my privacy settings. Anyways, thanks for linking.
Because there's no longer anything interesting on TV.
The part about automatic transmissions is interesting. Manual transmissions require both hands to drive (one for the wheel, one for the stick shifter) while automatic transmissions only require one hand to drive. This allows drivers of automatic transmission cars to use their free hand to play on their phone.
As someone who has driven both for decades, manuals only require two hands when accelerating and decelerating. While that does discourage holding something to an extent, I can easily eat a hamburger and shift with the same hand and would imagine a phone would be even easier to hold since there is no risk of dripping ketchup on the shift.
Wouldn't know though, since I don't hold a phone while driving either.
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