Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by Clubber on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:54AM (#16213984)

It's because our news is completely unregulated and local news always spotlights and aggrandizes crimes and whatnot, so that the population is terrified of itself constantly.

Obviously if people took the time to look at the crime statistics, the chances of being a victim of a crime is less than half of what it was when I walked a mile to elementary school every day.

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by souprock on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:35PM (#16217947)

For the oddball crimes, that is true. Kids aren't actually getting swiped off the streets.

For more normal crimes, the lifetime chance of being a crime victim is serious. For stranger-on-stranger violent crime, there is a total lifetime probability of about 5.3%.

You might think "oh that is just 5.3% so no big deal", but the chance of dying in a fire is only 0.09% and we still bother with smoke detectors.

Violent crime is a life-altering event. Given the potential for horrific consequences, it is reasonable to be concerned about the possibility. Transportation choices change that risk.

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by adrianN on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:44PM (#16220375)

I've been victim of violent crime. Somebody hit me in the face for no reason at all and ran away. While that sucks pretty bad, dying in a fire, or even just losing all my stuff in the fire, is incomparably worse. Being a victim of violent crime doesn't mean that you land in the hospital. Violent crime has a pretty broad definition.

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