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Re:Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges by ghaff on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:43AM (#30333334)
>including to avoid “drive-through” neighbourhoods without having to make the neighbourhood entirely impassable and a pain in the ass to residents.

I suspect that Google Maps and the like have worsened the level of driving through residential neighborhoods as they route you through a maze of residential streets to save (in theory) two minutes.

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Re:Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges by masklinn on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:45PM (#30336285)
Mostly Waze as it uses real trip times for its estimates and so can find “hidden shortcuts” through side streets. Though the rise of traffic avoidance in GPS likely contributed.

But that’s the point of traffic calming, they make trips take longer in real time so the route becomes less attractive as traffic avoidance, while not being a huge issue for “normal” local traffic.

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