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I appreciate the article's focus at the conclusion that responsibility for system design of the intersection is ignored by the bureaucracy. At a meta-level, I w
by biomcgary 3y ago
I appreciate the article's focus at the conclusion that responsibility for system design of the intersection is ignored by the bureaucracy. At a meta-level, I would like to see a system where citizens can report unsafe intersections for a nominal fee (to limit spurious reports) and everyone reporting the intersection is paid out X dollars for every fatal crash. At some point, the liability for the intersection would get so high that the system might notice (particularly if individual compensation was affected).
- vfclists 3y agoThis is plain ridiculous "monetize everything" and litigate at the drop of hat mindset. American officialdom is just plain pathological.
- biomcgary 3y agoI fully agree about the pathology in the US. The system I'm proposing is like a prediction market. How do officials know what to prioritize when they have limited data? The signal to noise ratio likely improves when people have paid money to report a problematic intersection and are incentivized to only report ones where they actually believe danger is present. My back of the napkin proposal suggests creating a market surrogate to provide information in a context where a market does not exist (due to the public monopoly on most roads).