Re:Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
by dingo_bat on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:04PM
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This is bullshit. A street designer has one job, to make the street good for driving. It is pedestrians responsibility to look and cross safely. It is driver's responsibility to not hit people who may have strayed onto the street. It is the car's responsibility to detect a human and apply the brakes automatically. It seems only the street designer did his job properly.
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I’d love to agree with you, but unfortunately as humans we are not infallible. We cannot rely on people to look in every direction and see every hazard constantly. The driver may have been distracted, for example by sun strike, and the pedestrian may have not seen the car due to its colour.
Roads need to be designed for their purpose, and their purpose also includes allowing pedestrians to cross safely even if the pedestrian and the driver suffer from a momentary distraction.
Re:Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
by PhasmaFelis on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:16AM
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> This is bullshit. A street designer has one job, to make the street good for driving.
The field you're referring to is called "highway engineering" or "traffic engineering", depending on specifics, and safety is absolutely a critical component either way.