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Cars stick to the rules? There were 42,915 automobile related deaths in the US in 2021. Annoyances over scooters is new, so we all notice it and complain. The sheer volume of damage inflicted by people using private cars for transit has just become accepted as normal.

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Well, it's not an absolute statement. But where I live I'd say 90%+ cars drive by the rules.

Anyway, my point wasn't that cars are sticklers for rules, but that to the extent they do, it's because the consequences of non compliance are potentially severe.

Drive on an escooter the wrong way with no lights at night through a red light, and hit a pedestrian? Get up and keep going.

You should calculate deaths per weight*miles moved. If ten people are riding scooters and 300 million people are driving cars, you'd expect cars to have more deaths.

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