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I don't really get the broken brain meme that cars have some conspiracy over pedestrians thing. In any commercial setting you don't have dangerous machinery an

I don't really get the broken brain meme that cars have some conspiracy over pedestrians thing. In any commercial setting you don't have dangerous machinery and humans mixing. It would not make sense. So it also makes sense to have absolute barriers in public between the two. The concept people prefer to walk only holds when that person wants to walk in place X and doesn't want 'other' humans to at that 'time and place' to be driving. Just like we all hate traffic jams, which really means we wish everyone else was not on the road. Driving gives us unbelievable freedoms and amazing access to things otherwise impossible. There is no conspiracy, it's just some places are not as well designed as others to get the two to work together, yet.

littletimmy 11y ago
That you claim that there is no conspiracy is empirically false. The street used to be exclusively for pedestrians. Read about car manufacturers in the USA and how they conspired to bring down both pedestrian traffic and also public transportation.
extra88 11y ago
> In any commercial setting you don't have dangerous machinery and humans mixing. Sure you do, forklifts in a warehouse for one. An "absolute barrier" means obstructing pedestrians even when there is no one driving at that time and place. Accidents also happened back when horse and carriage were the norm too but it was for cars that campaigns were started to make streets an exclusive domain [0]. [0] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...