Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The anecdote at the start of the article is insane; “I didn’t hit you, otherwise my sensors would have gone off. You rode into me!”
Outside of that, the statistics in this article are very eye opening, especially as someone who has to ride their bike along an unprotected bike lane on a major highway just to get into town if I don’t want to use the car. 38 deaths / year is a lot less than the ~115 for pedestrians, but considering how many more people walk than ride, those odds are still pretty terrifying to me.
And speaking of that car, funny the article outright says “If you’re in a Mazda 2, you’re not coming off okay [against a collision with an SUV]” because my daily driver is an early 90s Mazda 323. It’s always felt unnerving to drive it alongside large cars, especially as it’s so old it doesn’t even have *an" airbag or ABS.
Salvo@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I wonder how much of her denial was Denial and how much was avoiding guilt.
Driver Assistance Systems are there to assist a competent driver, not to empower an incompetent driver. If the second party is using these features as a crutch to compensate, or excuse their shitty driving, they need to be charged with reckless driving and needs to have the book thrown at them.