Clive Thompson on Nostr: Another thing that really stood out to me in that piece asking "why did American ...

Another thing that really stood out to me in that piece asking "why did American drivers start killing more and more pedestrians at night since 2008" ...

... was this data point:

According to the reporters, after a driver hits a pedestrian, "police typically don’t ask people involved if they were using phones"

If that's true, and I have no immediate reason to doubt the reporting, that is *nuts*

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