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Re:Electric cars more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol ... by entuno on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @06:05AM (#40439232)
To be fair to the Guardian, the study has only just come out, and is (apparently) using the most recent data available.

But yes, it's interesting that they're taking 7 year old data to present an anti-EV narrative without mentioning that rather important caveat.

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Re:Electric cars more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol ... by BLKNSLVR on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @08:46AM (#40440269)
To be fair, it is mentioned.

To be critical, it's mentioned in the 8th paragraph of a 13 paragraph article. Conversely, the very first paragraph is pure lede. The title and opening paragraph could be seen as discouraging the reading of the rest of the article. It's like the opposite of an online recipe - it's brutally efficient.

Odd for The Guardian which, as far as I understand it, is (somewhat) left leaning and I'd normally slightly correct for bias towards environmentally conscious perspectives.

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