Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great...
by ryukafalz on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:12PM
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Slowing down traffic via traffic calming does wonders for pedestrian safety. When cars are moving slowly, drivers have more opportunity to notice pedestrians and crashes are less likely to cause serious injury or to be fatal.
One other option there is to add raised crosswalks or a raised intersection, depending on the situation. That physically slows down cars as they enter the space where pedestrians may be.
Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great...
by estebank on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:28PM
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Bollards, intersection daylighting, narrower streets, leading crossibg signals, raised cross walks, no right on red, fewer unrestricted left turns. Just a handful of things that can be done to make drivers drive in a safer manner without explicit coercion.
Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great...
by erik_seaberg on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:57PM
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I was pretty hopeful when Musk started talking about car tunnels.
My neighbor was recently hit while walking her 4 year old and pushing her 1 year old in a stroller. In this case, the driver was making a left turn and as he completed the turn he did not see her in the crosswalk. On that road, it's not easy to make the left, so my assumption is they were solely focused on finding a gap to make the left. I can think of lots of improvements they can make: a crossing guard since there's a preschool there, some crossing flags, a turning lane, etc. But all solutions still seem to rely on driver's not making mistakes.