All these children are invisible to the driver…

Fuck all those cars!!! Put them away to hell, not to earth. They are too big for all - except for small egos. But for small egos is therapy much better.

  • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Or we could, you know, follow previously established methods of building vehicles that make pedestrian death and dismemberment less likely.

    No, no, no. Americans need them this way apparently for some inexplicable fucking reason.

    So instead of just designing them with pedestrian safety in mind to begin with, we are just gonna slap on more fucking band-aids (like cameras) that do fuck-all.

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    Require vehicle safety standards to test for pedestrian and cyclist survivability first and foremost.

    Require a commercial license to drive large and/or heavy vehicles such as pickup trucks. Take it away when a driver gets caught driving unsafely.

    Require vehicles to provide better visibility through the windshield, like Europe does.

    Design street lanes to be narrow and winding, so that drivers intuitively choose to drive at speeds that are safe for people outside the vehicle. Raise pedestrian crossings at the same level as the sidewalk so that drivers habitually slow down when they see a crossing.

    In other words, value the safety of the people outside the vehicle above the speed and convenience of the drivers.