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[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]
If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…
Pictures by:
@schmangee
@andyjayhawk
@hurtado_alvardo
and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)
![[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS6JabXkAEOE_9.png "[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)")
![[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS6LFrXcAEy5OG.png "[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)")
![[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS6MbHXgAAHwiu.png "[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)")
![[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS6NTeWsAMbpOn.png "[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…Pictures by: @schmangee @andyjayhawk @hurtado_alvardo and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)")
If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…
Pictures by:
@schmangee
@andyjayhawk
@hurtado_alvardo
and.... @Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)
[2/11]
…that offers you relative protection, but can easily be lethal for everybody around you…
Picture via @EdwardLamb
![[2/11]…that offers you relative protection, but can easily be lethal for everybody around you…Picture via @EdwardLamb](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS6nrcWAAAEt9D.png "[2/11]…that offers you relative protection, but can easily be lethal for everybody around you…Picture via @EdwardLamb")
…that offers you relative protection, but can easily be lethal for everybody around you…
Picture via @EdwardLamb
[3/11]
...at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour (or: 8 meters each second)…
(source: @NACTO)
![[3/11]...at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour (or: 8 meters each second)… (source: @NACTO)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS63JFWsAEb3HJ.png "[3/11]...at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour (or: 8 meters each second)… (source: @NACTO)")
...at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour (or: 8 meters each second)…
(source: @NACTO)
[4/11]
…in an environment with vulnerable people all around you; people like your parents, your children, your neighbours and people like your friends...
(let’s say, a city)
…in an environment with vulnerable people all around you; people like your parents, your children, your neighbours and people like your friends...
(let’s say, a city)
[5/11]
…and you CANNOT GUARANTEE that your attention will NEVER slip for a second, only a second (in which you are more than 8 meters further down the road)…
(source of cartoon unknown)
![[5/11]…and you CANNOT GUARANTEE that your attention will NEVER slip for a second, only a second (in which you are more than 8 meters further down the road)…(source of cartoon unknown)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS8EhCWsAE1OC0.png "[5/11]…and you CANNOT GUARANTEE that your attention will NEVER slip for a second, only a second (in which you are more than 8 meters further down the road)…(source of cartoon unknown)")
…and you CANNOT GUARANTEE that your attention will NEVER slip for a second, only a second (in which you are more than 8 meters further down the road)…
(source of cartoon unknown)
[6/11]
…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..
(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)
(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)
![[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS8TveXYAAdGzy.png "[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)")
![[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS8xw5XkAEfCVr.jpg "[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)")
![[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS9C51X0AM_E4r.jpg "[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)")
![[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS9LGwWAAALpP8.jpg "[6/11]…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)")
…under increasingly difficult conditions to keep your attention on the world around you..
(due to increasing comfort, ever larger screens and multimedia, other occupants)
(pictures of full dashboard screens via : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-shift-from-huge-in-car-screens-may-be-under-way-but-first-theyll/)
[7/11]
…you are a habitual offender of reckless or negligent driving. By design. And as continuously advertised as completely normal.
(video edited by @tomflood1)
…you are a habitual offender of reckless or negligent driving. By design. And as continuously advertised as completely normal.
(video edited by @tomflood1)
[8/11]
A crime that most of the time doesn’t end bad for you, fortunately…
(Cover of @SZ with German cyclists killed by negligence)
![[8/11]A crime that most of the time doesn’t end bad for you, fortunately…(Cover of @SZ with German cyclists killed by negligence)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS9_HfWAAA_UPN.png "[8/11]A crime that most of the time doesn’t end bad for you, fortunately…(Cover of @SZ with German cyclists killed by negligence)")
A crime that most of the time doesn’t end bad for you, fortunately…
(Cover of @SZ with German cyclists killed by negligence)
[9/11]
…but annually kills more than 1.000.000 people and maims many more: People like your parents, your children, your neighbours, people like your friends.
(statistics by @WHO)
![[9/11]…but annually kills more than 1.000.000 people and maims many more: People like your parents, your children, your neighbours, people like your friends.(statistics by @WHO)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS-MNnWkAMKnN4.png "[9/11]…but annually kills more than 1.000.000 people and maims many more: People like your parents, your children, your neighbours, people like your friends.(statistics by @WHO)")
…but annually kills more than 1.000.000 people and maims many more: People like your parents, your children, your neighbours, people like your friends.
(statistics by @WHO)
[10/11]
Humans are fallible, assuming they are not is a collossal mistake that has made our public space into a landscape of fear and violence.
It seems a price we are accepted to pay.
But is it?
(cartoon by @Avidor)
![[10/11]Humans are fallible, assuming they are not is a collossal mistake that has made our public space into a landscape of fear and violence.It seems a price we are accepted to pay. But is it?(cartoon by @Avidor)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS-ZEDXsAIBkCL.png "[10/11]Humans are fallible, assuming they are not is a collossal mistake that has made our public space into a landscape of fear and violence.It seems a price we are accepted to pay. But is it?(cartoon by @Avidor)")
Humans are fallible, assuming they are not is a collossal mistake that has made our public space into a landscape of fear and violence.
It seems a price we are accepted to pay.
But is it?
(cartoon by @Avidor)
[11/11]
Think about that for a moment, the next time you get into a car.
Or the next time somebody calls for hi-viz, helmets or disciplining pedestrians/cyclists.
(by @QAGreenways)
![[11/11]Think about that for a moment, the next time you get into a car.Or the next time somebody calls for hi-viz, helmets or disciplining pedestrians/cyclists.(by @QAGreenways)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkS-iDoXkAA-5t4.png "[11/11]Think about that for a moment, the next time you get into a car.Or the next time somebody calls for hi-viz, helmets or disciplining pedestrians/cyclists.(by @QAGreenways)")
Think about that for a moment, the next time you get into a car.
Or the next time somebody calls for hi-viz, helmets or disciplining pedestrians/cyclists.
(by @QAGreenways)
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