Right. I can’t wait for the thermal camera on my ridiculously expensive car to break so it can become a lawn ornament until I spend thousands on a new camera.
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TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
hmm thermal imaging in cars… or just more public transit and street lighting… give me the expensive capitalist hellcreating thing
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Guest_User@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m all for more public transport but I’m also all for improving safety features for pedestrians. Not sure why anyone would be against putting the cost on car owners.
Flyingostrich@endlesstalk.org 10 months ago
That only works in more urban areas.
Its impossible to covered every road in lights and it can get very dark when you are far away from a city. Same with public transit. I am all for it, but it’s only reasonable in more densely populated areas. There just won’t be enough people using it in th middle of nowhere to just something like that much less staff it.
Meanwhile helping cars see people even in those less common and more difficult situations is a good thing. Why would you NOT want your car to be safer for others around you?
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 10 months ago
80% of the US population, and about half of the world population, lives in urban areas.
By 2050, those figures will be 90% and 75%, respectively.
Planning better urban areas won’t help everyone, but it will help the supermajority.
deur@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Awww shit bois the huge country with plenty of money cannot afford to do it
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IMO, I don’t think it matters whether we can or can’t. I don’t think we should even if we could. Light pollution from cities is bad enough. Adding that many more lights would make it so much worse.
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 10 months ago
Conical shades on streetlights and yellow light to reduce interference with sleep.
Also: fewer fucking cars.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Imagine how much less light pollution there would be without all the cars…
Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Where do you think people lived during westward expansion when every town was connected by rail? There weren’t too many urban places out there.
It’s a myth that it only works for urban areas. Switzerland has their trains travel to basically every town on time and frequently, and those towns in the alps are sure as hell a lot harder to reach than whatever rural place you’re thinking of. Admittedly, getting from the station to your destination will be harder without a car until things are built or changed to replace car dependence, but car dependence was manufactured, not intrinsic.