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Infographic: "How Cars are Killing Us Around the World"

Posted by in Environment on Mar 12th, 2010 | no responses

Image: Infrastructurist Risk assessment is hard. We humans are hard-wired with many cognitive biases that can often distort our perception of reality and make us fear the wrong things. For example, on average, people will be more afraid of something with which they are unfamiliar compared to something that they see every day. Cars fall into the “familiar” category, and to remind us of the risk associated with driving, the nice people are the Infrastructurists made a really cool infographic that shows how cars are killing people around the wo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Infographic: "How Cars are Killing Us Around the World"

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