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Agree 100%.

Those things aren't really equivalent though. The percentage of pedestrian deaths in a collision at given speeds is starting from a 100% rate of incidence. So whilst it's predictable, it's not necessarily probable. How many pedestrians is a driver actually likely to hit driving at 40mph? Generally speaking, zero. How many people is a lunatic swinging golf club likely to hit in a crowded club, quite a lot more than zero.

Nevertheless, I appreciate your point. I was thinking only of speeding on highways. Speeding is an issue and shouldn't be minimised.

Sure, it's problem.

But speeding-related fatalities accounted for 30% of traffic fatalities in the US for 2022. Which implies there are plenty of other issues, such that I think saying "speeding is violence" doesn't really do anything to address the problem.

I'd argue that the main issue on US highways is a lack of discipline.

US drivers get away with murder in terms of undertaking, tailgating, camping in fast lanes under the speed limit, not to mention driving vehicles that are in such states of disrepair that it's a miracle the drivers get anywhere.

I'm way more relaxed cruising at 160km/h in Europe than literally any stretch of the I-5.

On your first point, that sounds like violence to me, sure. It's almost guaranteed to cause harm, and the club swinger probably knows that.

On your second point, the likelihood that speeding will cause actual harm to another person is vastly lower, and certainly not an outcome expected or intended by drivers generally speaking. Seems silly to call that "violence" when we can just call it irresponsible, negligent, etc.

Without devolving into a discussion of semantics too much, violence really does imply some intent to harm another person, or people.

If I drive at ~200km/h on my way from Berlin to Munich, am I "being violent"?

I agree say this is generally true in the United States, where driving discipline on highways is basically non-existent. Although I would stop short of calling it "extremely dangerous".

Sure, but I'm not sure "aggressively dangerous driving" is broadly equivalent to violence, or should be described as such.

At any rate, I'm not attempting to say traffic fatalities and injuries aren't a problem.

Yeah, having driven long distances in all kinds of rental cars with speed limit information shown on the dashboard, the car "knows" the speed limit accurately about 50% of the time.

"Traffic violence" implies deliberate acts intended to cause harm, but I don't think that's what you're referring to.

what's woke?

What industry do you think Tom Ford was talking about?

Tom Ford commented on the issue of counterfeit and "knock off" products in the fashion industry, he said after some research (I assume by him/his company) they found that the people buying the cheap counterfeit products weren't their customers anyway, and so they weren't losing anything.

Import maps and type="module" are pretty good.

I prefer to spend my time building against that instead of another bundler.