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Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Moving Car-Free as a Parent
Observations & reflections on moving around with an infant–photo diaries included.
Backseat Software
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
The Modern Moloch
On the streets of early 20th-century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside and play in the streets,” all day. And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine.
Write As If You’re Already Dead.
It was Saturday night, and I was stuck in traffic. Both sides of the freeway were tightly packed with cars — if Los Angeles was a literal…
How Playing Tetris Tames The Trauma Of A Car Crash
Researchers were able to dial down painful recollections of a car crash by having people play the video game Tetris while in the emergency room. The technique makes use of the malleability of memory.
The News: It’s The Precarious Future, Stupid
Wednesday’s Child Is Full of Woe
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
The Falling Man
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes
How to reclaim your attention from the distraction economy | Psyche Videos
Could you watch this video on full screen, 1x speed, with no distractions? Here are five steps to rebuild your attention span
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
The woman has unfortunately died after being run over by another woman backing her car out of a parking spot. Cars are unsafe at any speed.
Woman dies after being hit by vehicle in Iwilei parking lot
www.hawaiinewsnow.comcars are bad for humans
equity, mental, social, health issues caused by cars and car infra. #fuckcars
Driving 5 mph slower beats driving 5% less
The years Americans outlive driving
Motorists in one of a Montreal’s busiest boroughs support bike lanes
Killing someone with a car costs $1.6 million. California requires drivers to carry $30,000
Paying for driving
Will Canada’s gas tax holiday drive up emissions and help the rich? | The Narwhal
