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I’m sure most people are aware that the difference in danger is quite large but maybe not just how absurdly large.
Sharks kill about 10 people per year.
For cars the number is 1,670,000 deaths. Every year.
As a point of comparison, in 2025, about 250k people were killed in armed conflicts, which was the highest number in decades.
A lot of people think it’s weird to hate cars as much as I do. But they are quantitatively in a similar category as the Holocaust in terms of how many people they kill. From the perspective, it seems a bit crazy not to hate them.
Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/ https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5850355/data-highest-conflicts-iran-israel-ukraine-russia-world-war-ii
Also, in both cases many more are killed by humans than the other way around.
And yet people think I’m crazy for hating people as much as I do.
I’m the one that’s sick apparently not the world.
I’d ask if you come from !fuckcars@lemmy.world but I think we both know the answer is yes.
Me too.
I’ve always felt this way but that community has been huge for making me realize that a lot of other people feel the same way too!
I want us to redefine “pro-life” to mean pro-urbanism, pro-renewables, and pro-universal-healthcare. Just those 3 things would make for such a dramatic increase in life expectancy and fall in child mortality, it’s crazy.
Great idea!
While I don’t disagree much, let’s not be silly. The numbers need to be divided by hours of exposure.
I think both metrics would tell you different things. Even unadjusted it gives you an idea about which thing you should be concerned about addressing and reducing your own risk or the risk of those you care about.
Plus, I don’t have exposure data like that to make the comparison. If you do then it would certainly be interesting to see.
This was exactly my thought. Like I grew up by the ocean where lots of people swam and there were sharks. Did car deaths outnumber shark deaths? Of course. Was it 6 orders of magnitude as much? Not even close lmao.
One thing I learned in my journey to power a home and drive an electric car is that automobiles, even small “slow” cars, are thr most powerful thing that most people ever personally own. A firearm will accelerate a 7.5 gram projectile up to 425 meters per second. But my car will accelrate 1600 kg up to 44 meters per second and I can just take it wherever I want. I could even get a larger, faster one if I wanted and nobody would care.
Yeah. I know someone who was hit by a car at low speeds and survived but they still received a life-changing injury.
life-changing injury
Thats the other thing. Doesn’t have to kill to ruin a life. :-(
#theydidthemath
Stephen King wrote this book and it was made into a movie and a Futurama episode.
Really? I must have forgotten the part of Christine where the car becomes amphibious!
Granted, it HAS been a few decades since I read it…
Stephen King wrote this short story and directed the movie it was made into.
Yeah, I tried searching for it, but all I got where some sites with “20 best ghost car movies of all times”…
Hippos kill a lot more people than sharks.
I’m frankly surprised that hippos kill ANY sharks tbh 🤷🏻
I’m not. IIRC they’re technically herbivores, they just really fuckin’ hate other creatures for some reason
Nah, they’re just very territorial, protective of their young, and deceptively fast. Long as you steer clear, it’s not like they’re going to stalk you for several miles to kill you like a tiger might 🤷🏻
Last I checked, there’s very little territorial overlap between hippos and sharks 😄
The driver? A loan shark.
The passenger? A pool shark
FuckCars is spreading 😂😂
How repugnant.
I used to be surf patrol. Would explain it, “You’re far more likely to die in the car on the way to the beach. If you survive that, odds are you drown before a shark is even in the area. So stay where I can see you and you might just get lucky one day.”
Y’know, I think I could believe that cars kill more people than sharks even at sea.
what if we were to give cars, idunno, wings. or maybe rockets. i know let’s have a rocket company build cars and see how many people those would kill
Christine (1983) rolls into the room.
And Maximum Overdrive too.
Compared to shark attacks, more than 1,000 times the number of people each year choke to death. Now THAT’S a movie I’d watch!
Jaws theme but all you hear is a rattly bass and the windows close to breaking
Gonna need a bigger car…
And so goes the us automotive industry.
It’s called Maximum Overdrive.
Revenge of the Street Fighter bonus stage
Mosquitoes.
