The parents I talk to, and myself, keep kids inside so they do not get mowed down by a distracted driver in a huge vehicle.

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Toynbeeidea 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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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IAmBroom a day ago | parent [-]

That "nobody" is restricted to your very tiny experience. Worldwide, cars kill kids, a lot.

Datum vs Data, again.

	▲	morsch a day ago \| parent [-]
		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[2]. 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) [2] +40% more cars, in absolute terms, than in 1990!! Crazy.

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notnullorvoid a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe teach your kids to have awareness of what happens on the road when they are outside, rather than oblivious to it.

You're not helping them if when they go off to college they don't know how to be a cautious pedestrian.