[flaviu1]

Because you're immediately dismissing a whole set of thought with random anecdotes.

The only way that policy decisions should be made is with hard data. Policy decisions shouldn't be made on the basis of little girls getting stabbed by needles, just like they're not made on the basis of people getting hit by lightning.

Yes, there's circumstances where cars are essential.

Dense urban environments are not it. There's a massive set of negative externalities that cars and the mindset that people should never have to walk more than twenty feet between their front door and their destination bring. They've lead to greatly reduced quality of life in these urban areas.

[baroffoos]

Its funny that people focus on extraordinarily rare situations like sitting on a needle that are so rare that you have to find a news article to show that it can happen but ignore the horrifyingly common occurrence of car crashes which are so common almost everyone has experienced one or knows someone who has and usually has life threatening outcomes.