Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?

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• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Only one of my cars has just one of those things (blind spot monitor). That aside, all of my vehicles - cars and motorcycles - are paid off. I’m not going into debt just to have nannies yelling at me.

  My vehicles are a means to an end. I would absolutely love more public transit, but there is just a single train station about 12 miles from my house, while my work is only 6 miles in the same direction. “You could bike” you might say, which is a fantastic idea. However, 90% of my commute is on a 55mph rural highway with minimal shoulders and zero bike lanes. It’s literally a perfect candidate for a bus route, yet there are none.

  Now tell me how I’m the problem.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  with every section it just became worse

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• JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  All of those things are garbage and don’t work, they just drive you nuts until you turn them off.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And they missed some really low hanging, inexpensive solutions that would also work:

  • roundabouts
  • mass transit
  • physical barriers for bike lanes
  • zoning changes

  Those are all old “technologies” that are proven to be effective and don’t require giving car manufacturers an excuse to make cars even more expensive or retrofitting existing cars.

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