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Have you heard of backup cameras? They are now mandatory on cars and significantly reduce the frequency of hitting pedestrians. This negates both your point ab

• epistasis 4y ago
  Backup cameras are not going to save any significant amount of lives. What fraction of our car deaths are from backing up? Sure, it sounds like a good idea, and is a good idea, but it will not make the slightest dent in the death and carnage. There is one place that has solved this, Oslo: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/16/best-practices-how-oslo-reached-vision-zero-and-how-your-city-can-too/ https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/16/best-practices-how-os... Lots of other cities in the US adopted "Vision Zero" policies after seeing how Osls was drastically reducing death. But US cities refuse to make any of the changes that are actually successful at reducing death. Because what needs to change isn't just the design of the car, what really needs to happen is a change in the design of the road. We must start designing cities with the assumption that drivers will make mistakes, as all people always do. The design of roads and intersections must minimize the change for a deadly mistake. And perhaps, and here's the part that's really outside the Overton window, Pepe who want to travel by non-car means should have just as much access and safety as those inside cars. We force everyone in the US to get around by car if they are going to be the median participant in society. What if we had a world where the median person, with a job, was not expected to drive?