Tag: traffic
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Stop Driving 5 Miles per Hour Over the Speed Limit
Speed kills. In the United States, roughly 40,000 people die in traffic every year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motor-vehicle speeding killed over 9,000 people in 2018, which means around a quarter of all traffic deaths in this country are speed related. The NHTSA attributes our speeding epidemic to four factors: traffic,…
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I biked to work every day while living in Berlin and I was shocked by how much easier it was than in New York
Eliza Relman/Insider For two months I lived in Berlin and commuted to work by bike. As a New Yorker who cycles in the city, it was incredibly refreshing to reside in a spot with better bike infrastructure and far more respect for cyclists’ rights on the road. Most of the German capital is connected by…
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Elon Musk has tried to help fix these 7 humanitarian crises — here’s how he’s doing so far
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Paradoxically, Elon Musk. The eccentric billionaire and real-life Tony Stark has courted controversy and made headlines for all of the wrong reasons recently, but he has also had some notable success in developing world-changing technology. For all his bluster, attacks on journalists, and odd behaviorhe can seem real in his offer…