Re:Collision course: why are cars killing more and more pede...
by flyingfences on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:43PM
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> It puts all the responsibility on individuals
I think that's fair. If you're operating a vehicle, you'd darn well better be responsible for where it's going.
Re:Collision course: why are cars killing more and more pede...
by habnds on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:23PM
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It might be fair, but it doesn't work. Environmental changes are better than legislation at changing driver behavior.
More and more it seems that there isn't really a "safe" way to operate a car. It's really about how much risk society is willing to accept.
Aggressively holding drivers accountable for their mistakes might be necessary and an improvement but it wouldn't be sufficient to make streets safe for other users.
> And more Americans than ever are zipping around in SUVs and pickup trucks, which, thanks to their height, weight and shape are between two and three times more likely to kill people they hit
> “All this talk about pedestrian distraction, driver distraction? It’s such a distraction,” says Ben Welle of the World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities. “It puts all the responsibility on individuals, and none on the environment they operate in.”