cars

Cars.

Your car.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

Cars

Two way roads.

If they didn't exist today and someone came up with the brilliant idea of having people in control of machines (cars or bikes) moving in opposite directions at 50mph, separated by a few feet and a painted line, it would be dismissed immediately.

Your car. Just think about the forces and mechanisms invovled for this to happen. Every single day we travel at 100km/h in our 2ton at least metal box surrounded by hundreds of other people in their equally large and heavy and fast machines in a space barely wide enough to react in case of an emergency(not even considering if most are actually ready to act in such a case. All of this with realistically little training. Not to mention most people don't really pay attention while driving and certainly don't consider the life of others while doing so. It's so impersonal and dangerous. If it was a never heard of concept, individual cars driven by any normal person would be considered laughably stupid at the very best.

The top three causes of preventable fatal injury in the US are:

1. poisoning (including drug overdoses)
2. motor vehicles
3. falls

We might generalize these to:

1. chemistry
2. engineering
3. physics

Ladders. Most serious workplace accidents in a lot of trades can be linked back to falling from a hight. Don't be cocky when up a ladder, even little ones.

Dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff'll kill you.

At least here in a very anti-public transit US city: Automobiles

Capitalism. Most of the other (daily, specific) dangers out there are dangerous because someone's making money off putting other people in danger. I'm including the military industrial complex, but also regular industries and the exploitation of vulnerable populations.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel pollution.

Electricity?

Swimming pools, with kids in the house. More dangerous than owning a gun:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/living/2023/07/25/more-young-children-die-from-drowning-than-any-other-cause-of-death

Garage door. Then springs will kill you.

Gas stoves. Disasters waiting to happen with people sometimes forgetting to turn them off.

I'd say electricity. Even with all the safety precautions we have when using our electrical devices, there's still so much that can go wrong

Sugar.

Electricity

Plastics

Religion

Lithium batteries

Social media

Time. Getting old sucks.

Fire

1. Cars
2. Stairs
3. Bathtubs

Ladders and alcohol hold big honorary mentions too.