Interested to see what fully self-driving cars will do to these types of schemes. What happens to police departments when the cars no longer do anything ticket-able?
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
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Re: Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
About the infant morality rate specifically, that's in large part due to a different reporting standard. And, as to the "regular walking or cycling distance" the US simply has less population density. That said, I think mandatory vacation and universal healthcare would be nice.
Could you explain or link to the "different reporting standard" between USA and everyone else for infant mortality please?
Oh sure. At a high level (and I'm not super well versed), infant mortality statistics are only based on live births. In the US, this includes any baby that breaths or otherwise shows any sign of life. In several other countries (including western european ones), the check for signs of life doesn't happen immediately. There's also the question of if countries mark extremely premature births (It's a politically charged issue, because many people consider it to be the loss of a child, and no doctor wants to tell them the child was never born. Since 2001, France has more than doubled the number of stillbirths, because of new standards that moved what were once miscarriages to the stillbirth category (some driven locally, some in response to new WHO standards based on the ability to care for premature infants.)
It's also politically charged because many groups have a vested interest in downplaying any results that make their country look bad. I'm not going to claim it's entirely a statistical artifact - the US lacks comprehensive neonatal care and that's an issue.
Re: Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
About the infant morality rate specifically, that's in large part due to a different reporting standard. And, as to the "regular walking or cycling distance" the US simply has less population density. That said, I think mandatory vacation and universal healthcare would be nice.
Population density has little to do with it. It is the city design and culture. Europeans accept that it is normal to live in apartment or terraced house in the cities.
> Europeans accept that it is normal to live in apartment or terraced house in the cities.
Because of population density.