alt Hacker NewsWhat also happened around 2009?... Smartphones taking off in a big way.
Distracted pedestrians must be a significant factor too. Especially if they've got noise-cancelling Airpods or similar in their ears while looking at their phone.
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NopIdoN • yesterday at 6:05 PM
Yeah fuck those inattentive pedestrians not leaping out of my way
if that was true, we'd see the same pedestrian mortality rise everywhere, which we don't.