Heck, let’s even make it fair and compare them on the basis of units of mass transported per unit of distance traveled. I’m sure car still wins (in the negative sense, as per usual).

I’m leaning more towards psychopath. Zero conscience whatsoever.

I would add PairDrop to your list to have bookmarked. It’s completely web-based so no download required and thus fully cross-platform. It also works across different networks (i.e. over the internet) by pairing devices or creating a room. Basically Apple AirDrop, but universal and on steroids.

I wouldn’t think this would cause any data loss either, it just wouldn’t find your media or it would throw an error. Very alarmist indeed.

Much more tragic on average per occurrence, of course. But, I’d be willing to bet that the chance of falling down that slope is way higher than being hit, and thus the “average damage over time” is far greater for falls than collisions. People are really bad at comprehending risk. (See: dying from a shark attack or lightning strike being more common fears than dying from falling down the stairs.)

It feels wrong to reduce human lives to a numbers game, but that’s what traffic engineering is. If there’s a budget, it has to be a numbers game at some level.

At first I interpreted that title to mean that WA’s toll road rates are determined in part by how many people have died on them within a certain time window, and I thought to myself “Damn, that’s a really morbid strategy. But, perhaps also strangely… effective?? Or at least one would think, but apparently not.”