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car-dependent infrastructure and urban design is hostile to human life.
by postflopclarity 11mo ago
car-dependent infrastructure and urban design is hostile to human life.
- barbacoa 11mo agoCar depend infrastructure is amazing to families. A mom can take her children to the grocery store in a car in relative safety without worrying about mentally ill homeless people on the subway.
- cal_dent 11mo agowow. this thread is microcosm of how wild and polarised the internet can be.
- greenavocado 11mo agoIt's pure facts. I used to live in a city where me and my wife were terrorized by homeless people on the light rail. Now we live far away from public transportation and no longer have to worry about the safety of ourselves or our children and our neighbors are fantastic people. Car dependency and castle doctrine is essential in a low trust society with a legal system that puts violent offenders right back on the street.
- Tostino 11mo ago[flagged]
- tomhow 11mo agoPlease avoid personal swipes like this on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- giraffe_lady 11mo agoMoving in a private vehicle is statistically the most dangerous activity an otherwise healthy young person routinely participates in. Your family is almost certainly at higher risk of death and serious injury now because you based this decision on your perception of safety rather than evaluating the reality of it. Speaking of "pure facts."
- greenavocado 11mo agoI have more than 200,000 miles accident free and my kids are doing fine. Living in a city with unhinged maniacs on drugs was way more dangerous.
- array_key_first 11mo agoRight, except it wasn't, like objectively. Like factually. As in its not up to your opinion. Driving is more dangerous, and it's not even close. For example, in NYC you're over 100x more likely to die in a car on the roads above the subway than on the subway.
- greenavocado 11mo agoI'm glad we understand that risk isn't evenly distributed and this also applies to driving
- array_key_first 11mo agoIt does, but not much. When you drive, your life is in thousands of people's hands. Only the most naive of the naive can believe being a safe driver means they won't die in a car wreck.
- giraffe_lady 11mo agoI've been sharing needles for 20 years and I'm fine so far what's your point.
- postflopclarity 11mo ago
- weregiraffe 11mo agoMen would rather build a continent-sized car-dependent infrastructure that deal with mentally ill homeless people on the subway...
- ponector 11mo agoIt is called the American way.
- greenavocado 11mo agoCorrect. Lack of accessibility is a feature when you live around bad people and the legal system doesn't function to eliminate the threat
- weregiraffe 11mo agoThe radio said 'No, John. You are the bad people.'
- red-iron-pine 11mo agoyeah but i can make money selling comically oversized trucks and suvs to fatass americans fixing homelessness doesn't make me money
- piva00 11mo agoIn more than a decade living in Stockholm never had a mentally ill homeless person bothering anyone in the subway. Perhaps the subway itself isn't the problem...
- jenadine 11mo agoA mom can also take her car in a non-car-dependent infrastructure.
- lowkj 11mo agoWhy would you need to get on the subway to go to the grocery store? When I lived in Paris I was within a five minute walk to at least three general grocery stores plus various speciality shops. Always plenty of parents all around. This is not uncommon in properly designed non-car dependent cities. Not to mention deliveries are just that much easier and all without a car.
- ndsipa_pomu 11mo agoSurely the priority should be to help those with mental issues and those without homes? It's bizarre to want to live in a society that prioritises car use so that people don't have to see those discarded by the same society.