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I hereby pardon all parking enforcement officers
- eritosna 2y ago> Actually, home fire safety also fits these criteria. In the US, I believe we > should regulate/enforce traffic-safety more like fire-safety. Residential fire > prevention has clearly been successful; traffic safety is an ongoing failure. What would this entail? Most jurisdictions already require periodic inspections of automobiles, and as far as I know, most existing private buildings aren't legally beholden to fire codes. However as a non-driver and non-homeowner, I'm not super familiar with either sort.
- surprisetalk 2y agoThanks -- great clarifying point! Private buildings are typically beholden to fire codes, because fire spreads and inflicts nonlinear damage. Fire departments respond to fire emergencies. They use incident stats to prevent future fires. Likewise, bad drivers/infrastructure wreak nonlinear harm. But traffic departments are disconnected from the feedback loop. Police departments carry entirely different goals/incentives that don't seem to align with traffic safety.