i like that you brought up the natural world, because i think that's a really smart point. One thing i talk about in the book is, when i was a little kid, i fell off a cliff, ten feet, a bad hand in jury. I survived a but, you know, theres no rail on this cliff in a public park. And it gets t you know, how much control we have over the natural world? Like when you're mountaineering, there is limited control we can have in that environment. But in our roads, we can have complete control. You're much more likely to die by accident in the us than in europe or japan.
Jessie Singer's new book There Are No Accidents has made a big splash in the road safety community and far beyond, by interrogating a word that makes most people nod and move on: "accident." On this week's episode, Singer joins Alex, Kirsten and Ed to discuss how she became fascinated with the word, the realities she discovered behind its bland façade, and what it all means.