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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by Toynbeeidea on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:48AM (#50441159)
I lived a chunk of my childhood on a road where most of the traffic was tractor trailers. I went outside and even waited for the bus. Nobody died, nobody got hurt.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by IAmBroom on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:09PM (#50444784)
That "nobody" is restricted to your very tiny experience. Worldwide, cars kill kids, a lot.

Datum vs Data, again.

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by morsch on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:18PM (#50445742)
I don't know about worldwide, but in Germany[1] the number of children injured or killed in traffic has been on a downward slope for about 40 years. That includes pedestrians. And despite the fact that number of cars has gone up up up.

Of course parents being more restrictive with their kids may well be one of the reasons why the number has gone down (there are many confounding factors).

[1] and, at first glance, most of Europe https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkeh... (pages 53 onwards among others)

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