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By the way, the road with trees photo might be intended just as a filler and not an example of good design, but if it is, I would beg to differ. We have rounds
by glogla 14y ago
By the way, the road with trees photo might be intended just as a filler and not an example of good design, but if it is, I would beg to differ. We have rounds like that pretty much everywhere where I live, and the trees kill quite a lot of people. Puting you car into a field (when you near miss deer, or druk driver in going the opposite direction or something) and putting it into a tree is very different.
- mc32 14y agoYeah shady lanes were good,useful (design) for Napoleon's army (and previously France's Henry the iv's) when they marched to and from battlefields[1] --but those same trees are now responsible for quite a few automobile wrecks in modern times for the reasons you illustrate. [1] http://www.economist.com/node/2429069 http://www.economist.com/node/2429069
- snogglethorpe 14y ago> and the trees kill quite a lot of people Er, the trees aren't "killing people," the trees are just sitting there. The drivers are driving dangerously and killing themselves (and their passengers, and pedestrians, and bicyclists, and other drivers, and occasionally a tree or two)... If there's any action that needs to be taken it's to make people drive more safely. [Part of this, incidentally, is to make roads narrower and less open, e.g., by adding trees, to reduce the impression that a road is "fast".]
- glogla 14y agoYou don't need to drive dangerously (unless "driving at all" means "driving dangerously") to hit a tree, it suffices if someone else does drive dangerously. Most people in traffic accidents are victims, not perpetrators, and I see little point in making victims suffer.