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Maybe that's not a place the vehicle should be going 35mph, then. Maybe the vehicle should be smaller, instead of ever-larger SUVs and trucks. Maybe there sho
by majormajor 6y ago
Maybe that's not a place the vehicle should be going 35mph, then.
Maybe the vehicle should be smaller, instead of ever-larger SUVs and trucks.
Maybe there should be crosswalks and signals.
There's nothing in the laws of physics that dictate that roads should be hard to cross on foot, and that cars should move at their current speeds, and be designed the ways they are. Those are all choices.
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoMaybe the cars should simply be banned at certain places, it's also a valid possibility. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18014283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18014283
- mainstreemm 6y agoThere's a crosswalk and signal at literally every block in NY, which has been the focus of this discussion. SUVs exist and are so large because emissions standards don't allow for large enough family vehicles in sedan or wagon format. That's why families have SUVs instead of sedans now. If you legislate away every vehicle capable of carrying more than five people you're essentially banning families larger than that, especially in places in the US which don't have public transit, which is most of the country. THIS is the kind of clueless urban elite childless Coastal DINK perspective that drives regular people raising families in flyover country absolutely bananas with its complete lack of perspective for other lifestyles than the ones in San Francisco and New York! Not all of us want to live in tiny apartments and on crowded trains for our whole lives and the people who do want that life do not have the right to dictate that to the rest of us through limits on what kind of vehicles we're allowed to drive