It is also worth noting, the US has literally zero pedestrian safety regulations with regard to new vehicles.
Though American regulators considered adopting similar [to the EU's] pedestrian safety goals years ago, they have resisted them. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that NHTSA studied pedestrian safety regulations from the 1970s through the 1990s, but never acted.
“The agency never made clear its reasons for abandoning the idea, but the motivation for it likely faded as pedestrian fatalities continued to drop on their own,” IIHS wrote in 2011, when pedestrian deaths were about 25 percent lower than they are now.
I'm reminded of a point in this debate where the libertarian is like, "should the driver be responsible when a pedestrian walks into the road?" and the obvious answer to him is "no."
It is also worth noting, the US has literally zero pedestrian safety regulations with regard to new vehicles.
as a pedestrian, can this country stop trying to fucking kill me? A crosswalk does not mean "swerve around the pedestrian"
I will commit myself totally to the overthrow of this nation's government for this :amerikkka:
Yeah....they dropped cuz everyone is afraid to walk anywhere anymore....
I'm reminded of a point in this debate where the libertarian is like, "should the driver be responsible when a pedestrian walks into the road?" and the obvious answer to him is "no."