High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Large trucks account for five per cent of the vehicles in the United States but play a role in ten per cent of fatal accidents.

    How many accidents happen with parked cars? Yet they’re the majority of vehicles. Not to defend the American trucking industry; it’s a disaster and there’s no way that heavy trucks would be allowed on roads if they were suddenly invented today.

    ETA: finished the article. The above quote really is tangential to the point of the article. It’s a great read. The lengths people go to for money is astounding.

    • Bonus@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      The lengths people go to for money is astounding.

      Yeah, by the end, the clear issue is the ratios affecting the poor. Brutal, heartbreaking.

    • misk@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      there’s no way that heavy trucks would be allowed on roads if they were suddenly invented today.

      There’d be some big tech corpo that would build a billion of them at once, connect them to the internet and pretend they’re just extra large electric scooters until they were so ubiquitous that the public couldn’t imagine banning them.