Re:Dieter Rams and Why Designers Will Lead the Future
by glogla on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:39PM
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By the way, the road with trees photo might be intended just as a filler and not an example of good design, but if it is, I would beg to differ. We have rounds like that pretty much everywhere where I live, and the trees kill quite a lot of people. Puting you car into a field (when you near miss deer, or druk driver in going the opposite direction or something) and putting it into a tree is very different.
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Re:Dieter Rams and Why Designers Will Lead the Future
by snogglethorpe on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @12:47AM
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> and the trees kill quite a lot of people
Er, the trees aren't "killing people," the trees are just sitting there. The drivers are driving dangerously and killing themselves (and their passengers, and pedestrians, and bicyclists, and other drivers, and occasionally a tree or two)...
If there's any action that needs to be taken it's to make people drive more safely. [Part of this, incidentally, is to make roads narrower and less open, e.g., by adding trees, to reduce the impression that a road is "fast".]
Re:Dieter Rams and Why Designers Will Lead the Future
by glogla on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @05:57AM
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You don't need to drive dangerously (unless "driving at all" means "driving dangerously") to hit a tree, it suffices if someone else does drive dangerously. Most people in traffic accidents are victims, not perpetrators, and I see little point in making victims suffer.
Re:Dieter Rams and Why Designers Will Lead the Future
by mc32 on Monday February 04, 2013 @06:31PM
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Yeah shady lanes were good,useful (design) for Napoleon's army (and previously France's Henry the iv's) when they marched to and from battlefields[1] --but those same trees are now responsible for quite a few automobile wrecks in modern times for the reasons you illustrate.