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My issue with this is it's never good to get hit by a car. It's putting a band aid on a symptom rather than fixing the source of the problem. Fixing it though
by ApolloFortyNine 2y ago
My issue with this is it's never good to get hit by a car. It's putting a band aid on a symptom rather than fixing the source of the problem.
Fixing it though would require government money redesigning infrastructure, new rules makes it where you can push off the costs to car companies.
- ak217 2y agoGetting hit by a car is much more survivable than getting hit by an oversized pickup truck/SUV whose designers deliberately chose a huge, blunt frontal cross-section with poor visibility over the hood. This deliberately unsafe design needs to be outlawed. Infrastructure improvements like traffic calming and dedicated grade-separated pedestrian/cyclist infrastructure are great too, but we need both.
- empath75 2y agoIt's never good to be in a car accident but safety standards for cars have _dramatically_ reduced traffic fatalities for _passengers_ and I'm sure standards can improve pedestrian survivability, too. There's lots you can do with traffic engineering, too, to make high speed accidents less likely with pedestrians.