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Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic (www.404media.co)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

500 carjackings in NYC in a year? Oh the humanity.

There's literally a million cars on the road on any given day just in lower Manhattan.

Get a sense of scale.

10k pedestrians get hit by cars and trucks in NYC every year and you're worried about the health and safety of 500 carjackers (probably fewer, given potential for repeat offenders). What in the actual fuck?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I suppose they're extremely common in comparison to other countries. I've never heard of them happening in mine since the 90s when we actually had violent crime.

We still have car theft, it's just that they get stolen while parked.

Extremely common in absolute terms? Hell nah, there are a lot of unpleasant things more likely to happen to you in the US than carjackings.