Social event at Zeche Zollverein, Accidents are avoidable

In the evening we went to Zeche Zollverein - a world cultural heritage site called "the most beautiful coal mine in the world". We got a guided tour and had dinner in the Kokerei.
It was interesting to see and learn about working conditions - which were really hard. 100 years ago it was common that live expectancy of the workers was less that 60, that there was typically one serious accident per day and that about 30 people died every year in the coal mine.

We find that nowadays inhumane and it would be in Germany (and many other countries) completely unacceptable. Coming back to cars … we accept that in order to have personal transportation it sees unavoidable to have accidents and that 4477 people were killed 2008 in traffic accidents in Germany (which was lower than all the years before). Perhaps in 100 years people will look back at us similar to how we look back at the working conditions in coal mines 100 years ago. And I think research in Automotive User Interfaces can help working towards safer individual traffic.