You don't really have agency. You don't have agency over that person blasting down the road coming the other direction running the red light. You don't have agency over that drunk nodding off and crossing the yellow line. You don't have agency over someone not looking and merging into you causing you to go off the road and roll over. You don't have agency over that person looking at their phone and not realizing they're approaching you stopped at that red light ahead while they're going 20 over the speed limit.
You think everyone injured in a car accident caused the accident?
And you think people walking have more agency over a car coming and crushing them? That's why I said it's best to be a in a car in a car crash because that way you're protected. I'm not even against public transport is just simply not more safe than private transport
> And you think people walking have more agency over a car coming and crushing them?
And you think you have more stuck with a car in front of you and beside you? Or active cars going through the intersection while you're supposed to be stopped? Or merging into you when you have cars in front of you and behind you and beside you? You have the same agency, probably less in that car stuck in traffic.
But if you were in a bus, you'd have a much larger vehicle and have far less energy imparted to you as a passenger, or if you were on a light rail you wouldn't even be in the intersection in the first place. Better yet, that drunk would be on the bus instead of being forced to drive and cause the accident in the first place!
Every statistic shows transit is far safer than cars.
You're clearly not thinking through the scenarios through to actually analyze which leads to more agency and outcomes which is what you really care about. Spend some time reflecting before you reply and give actual concrete examples please.
buses have no airbags though, people walking across the street neither. Cars won't be eliminated and crime is getting worse across the board. I'd rather be in a car if I can
Busses barely even feel the impact of running over the Suburban. Have you ever been in a collision of a car and a bus? I have, in the bus colliding with an SUV that ran a red. The driver of the SUV was wheeled away seemingly unresponsive. It cost me about a 20 minute delay in my travel a long with everyone else on the bus. Who do you want to be?
Think about how you feel safer in that giant SUV compared to a subcompact. Then remember the bus is significantly larger than the SUV even comparing the SUV to the subcompact. Which "wins" in the accident? Now think of the light rail train, even larger than the bus.
I'd rather not even have to be in the path of a drunk driver in the first place. Maybe we could redesign our cities ahead of time so those drunks could walk or ride the bus or bicycle instead of getting behind the wheel. Impossible, I'm sure.
You seemingly can't even imagine a world where one doesn't need to get in a car to go to a bar or go get groceries, it's just assumed both of these people and you will have to be in a car and share the path.
Once again you haven't actually logically thought about these differences. Think about it again before you reply.
You think everyone injured in a car accident caused the accident?