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withak posted:we should make the cars take the underpasses. Like some sort of cyber loop? 
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Platystemon posted:People give Americans a hard time for not buckling their seatbelts, but the American motorist death rate is even lower than the Dutch cyclist death rate. Excellent moving of the goal posts. Next you're gonna suggest that ground traffic should be banned and everyone should fly planes because air-travel has a lower number of fatalities per distance travelled. It's almost like the faster you travel, the easier it is to get a low fatality rate per kilometer. PS. Since US motorist fatality rate is twice that of my country, I think it's safe to say that you are in favour of forcing US drivers to wear helmets*, right? And perhaps pedestrians too? e: * This would actually be a good thing because it would discourage driving. Steen71 has issued a correction as of 12:36 on Nov 6, 2023 |
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Steen71 posted:It's almost like the faster you travel, the easier it is to get a low fatality rate per kilometer. Shouldn't the metric be normalized to "hours spent traveling" or something, then?
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Platystemon posted:People give Americans a hard time for not buckling their seatbelts, but the American motorist death rate is even lower than the Dutch cyclist death rate.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Shouldn't the metric be normalized to "hours spent traveling" or something, then? Yeah, that would probably make sense, otherwise walking seems absurdly lethal.
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Nov 6, 2023 13:14
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It should be "unregretted travel minutes"
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Steen71 posted:Yeah, that would probably make sense, otherwise walking seems absurdly lethal.
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withak posted:we should make the cars take the underpasses. what if we hook them together so only one person had to drive?
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withak posted:we should make the cars take the underpasses. the fight for increasing driver visibility has been lost. we need to reduce driver visibility as much as possible so they can never assume a maneuver is safe. see how that works for a while
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https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/11/02/elderly-woman-dies-after-being-hit-by-hit-and-run-drivers-twice-on-brooklyn-street/ i skate this exact intersection all the time. visibility is great. these drivers absolutely knew what they were doing.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Shouldn't the metric be normalized to "hours spent traveling" or something, then? per trip, bozo countries should win for building cities that put origins close to destinations
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Nov 6, 2023 16:20
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The bike trail is going to be closed for another year or two for freeway construction 
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I hate how bright everyone's headlights are now. It's like everyone is driving with their brights on all the time, pisses me off. Then you get the assholes in trucks with goddamn stadium lighting. And it's not like it's actually making anyone safer pedestrian deaths are at a 40 year high lmao loving carbrains
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spacemang_spliff posted:I hate how bright everyone's headlights are now. It's like everyone is driving with their brights on all the time, pisses me off. Then you get the assholes in trucks with goddamn stadium lighting. And it's not like it's actually making anyone safer pedestrian deaths are at a 40 year high lmao loving carbrains clearly the pedestrians' fault, since 55%* of all pedestrian - car crashes are due to pedestrian inattentativeness!
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spacemang_spliff posted:pedestrian deaths are at a 40 year high lmao loving carbrains huh i wonder if this has anything to do with the rectangles we started carrying in our pockets like ten years ago that are constantly crying out for our attention
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:huh i wonder if this has anything to do with the rectangles we started carrying in our pockets like ten years ago that are constantly crying out for our attention certainly. the cops should start ticketing pedestrians for being on their phones - I bet that'd help lower the death rate. im not normally a fan of more policing but it might be the lesser of two evils here until the pedestrian death rate from cars approaches the rate that cops murder people
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:The bike trail is going to be closed for another year or two for freeway construction  My city has a bylaw that any construction that disrupts a bike route has to provide a detour of equivalent quality. It's not 100% reliably enforced, but it is mostly.
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I really like living in a city where I can walk/bike to my doctor, dentist, post office, 2 grocery stores (3 next year), and like a dozen restaurants. The number of car trips I need to make has been cut down by like 90% since I moved here. It's like one weekly for a hike and then one a few times a year if I need to haul a bigger load than I can carry in my backpack or on my bike.
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:certainly. the cops should start ticketing pedestrians for being on their phones - I bet that'd help lower the death rate. im not normally a fan of more policing but it might be the lesser of two evils here until the pedestrian death rate from cars approaches the rate that cops murder people Maybe your phone could give you a push notification if it detects a car too close
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:certainly. the cops should start ticketing pedestrians for being on their phones - I bet that'd help lower the death rate. im not normally a fan of more policing but it might be the lesser of two evils here until the pedestrian death rate from cars approaches the rate that cops murder people Or maybe, just maybe, we could build road infrastructure that's intrinsically protective of vulnerable road users, rather than victim blaming.
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another day, another fire department veto of any measures that could make streets safer by making dangerous driving impossible all streets, lanes, and alleys must allow 35-ton firetrucks to travel 55mph to save lives, you see
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Lead out in cuffs posted:
That's cool, the detour they set up here is cratered like the road to Mariupol right now
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mawarannahr posted:Maybe your phone could give you a push notification if it detects a car too close that's a great idea - most new cars now have wifi and bluetooth, they can just start pinging each other so both the driver and the pedestrian know when they're getting too close
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it should slam the brakes on if it gets too close to a phone pinging as a pedestrian that will stop all crashes
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:certainly. the cops should start ticketing pedestrians for being on their phones - I bet that'd help lower the death rate. im not normally a fan of more policing but it might be the lesser of two evils here until the pedestrian death rate from cars approaches the rate that cops murder people ya for sure, lets give the police more power to abuse assault and otherwise ruin the lives of people they deem unworthy because... *checks notes* cars run people over
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:that's a great idea - most new cars now have wifi and bluetooth, they can just start pinging each other so both the driver and the pedestrian know when they're getting too close I've seen proposals like this by self-driving car types - where pedestrians would required to carry devices with them at all time to identify themselves to cars since cameras and radar aren't 100% reliable for spotting people crossing the street. I haven't heard anything about it in a while. They probably figured out that it's cheaper to just blame people for getting hit than it is to solve the problem.
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Weembles posted:I've seen proposals like this by self-driving car types - where pedestrians would required to carry devices with them at all time to identify themselves to cars since cameras and radar aren't 100% reliable for spotting people crossing the street. The self-driving car types have been pretty quiet since it came out that Cruise's "self-driving" cars had an average of 1.5 human beings remotely driving them.
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you dummies need to stop engaging with SHMM seriously 
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spider hyphen man man
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evil_bunnY posted:you dummies need to stop engaging with SHMM seriously Everyone know's he's here to be lovely, but it's not like he's posting epic reddit recipies.
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:The bike trail is going to be closed for another year or two for freeway construction They should close the freeway for bike trail construction. Weembles posted:I've seen proposals like this by self-driving car types - where pedestrians would required to carry devices with them at all time to identify themselves to cars since cameras and radar aren't 100% reliable for spotting people crossing the street. Biden’s $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Hastens Beacons For Bicyclists And Pedestrians Enabling Detection By Connected Cars Thank you, Joe. 
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Weembles posted:Everyone know's he's here to be lovely, but it's not like he's posting epic reddit recipies. look, we're not going to get rid of cars without revolution, so we might as well try to come up with other ways to prevent releated deaths. don't let perfect be the enemy of good
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Mr. Sharps posted:spider hyphen man man
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:that's a great idea - most new cars now have wifi and bluetooth, they can just start pinging each other so both the driver and the pedestrian know when they're getting too close just like hunt for red october
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America Main Menu > Settings > Bluetooth > scroll down to "the Automobile" > Delete Pairing > Confirm
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A car hit a bus with 12 people on it and injured all 12 and the bus ended up going up on the sidewalk and hitting a woman and killing her. All because of one piece of poo poo who shouldn't have been operating a car.
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silicone thrills posted:A car hit a bus with 12 people on it and injured all 12 and the bus ended up going up on the sidewalk and hitting a woman and killing her. idk sounds like this wouldn't have happened if we didn't have buses
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:idk sounds like this wouldn't have happened if we didn't have buses Also, if we didn't have sidewalks.
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