Simply don't drive into the giant bright yellow block of concrete???? what the fuck?
You don't understand, she thought it was a child in a bright yellow raincoat, which are usually safe to run over!
If they were driving so fast or inattentively that they ran themselves onto that shit, it seems it was working as intended.
Ah yes, it's the barracade's fault. Not the stupid driver
To understand this approach you have to understand that the underlying infrastructure planning for a good 60 years now has been to account for every accident a moron in a car might make to the detriment of everybody else and people have come to expect this.
Is this person being a fucking moron? Absolutely and no two ways about it, but this sentiment gains traction because we have trained everyone in a car to basically not having to pay attention.
people who cannot avoid a giant yellow block of concrete should not be allowed to operate a car on a public road
what are you talking about they are big fucking steel chunks of death we should be making them as easy to use as possible so they don’t fucking kill people
that arrives you at the current position where what happens is due to making it extremely safe for even the most inattentive or incompetent drivers it's just someone not in a car getting killed, both on a direct and societal level.
The people who have been trained to crash into bright neon yellow orange concrete bollards also crash into other things, often times killing people not in cars.
You wann make driving a car safer for everybody, including the people at the wheel, you give them narrow, twisty roads so they never get to a speed where they kill anybody, including themselves.
If drivers are so inattentive that they hit that they hit neon bollards they'll also hit pedestrians in the crosswalk right behind it. Better they fuck up their own car from their negligence than kill someone
Doesn't seem useless to me, that street looks decisively slowed.
Maybe if motorists ( 🤮 ) are unable to navigate themselves around a tiny barricade there should be fewer people in cars
I will certainly say there are instances where bad infrastructure can cause crashes, or at least make them far more likely than if it was better.
This is not one of those cases, simply don’t hit the barrier.
the general idea to car infrastructure enshrined into law is fucking idiosyncratic anyways. On the one hand, a drivers license you get once when you're a teenager is enough for you to pilot basically any car under any condition at full attention, legally.
On the other hand, we design our streets in such a way to minimize risks to car drivers at great expense.
In a sane world, these two concepts could not exist simultaneously
so here i am
looking dumber all the time
using SUVs to grind
feeling carbrained in my mind
This is in a 20 km/h (18.6 mph) zone. Those barriers are about 5 meters long, and the SUV is about an extra meter down it at the front. For even a heavy vehicle like this Durango to skid about 6 meters, 20 feet, with all four tires off of the road, they would have to be going fairly significantly above that speed. They're also closer to being in the oncoming lane of traffic than in their own.
:maybe-later-honey: look it's just a little unnecessary ya know, 300 cars speed through here every day and only 1 kid gets killed about every 10 years
After watching the recent Some More News about car dominance, it made me realize something that I already kind of knew but in a more concrete way. So Cody talks about the creation of anti jaywalking laws, and how it was based around victim blaming formula. So the realization is how much the car reinforces victim blaming mentality that exists in so many forms such as rape culture, bootstraps etc.
Of course it's a Dodge Durango. Consistently some of the worst, most aggressive drivers
punches some carbrain in the face
"why did you hit my hand with your face???"
