Pedestrian-Car Safety Debate
The cluster discusses the prioritization of pedestrian safety over car occupants, highlighting how vehicles kill pedestrians, the dangers of speeding and large vehicles, and measures like speed bumps or design changes to protect walkers.
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You meant the safest thing for people in cars. This is not the safest thing for pedestrians, thousands of whom die from being hit by cars in the USA every year.
Far more pedestrians are hurt and killed by vehicles than drivers are hurt by speed bumps. As someone who both drives and walks, I believe it is 100% acceptable to trash a few people’s cars (who ignored the speed limit) to reduce pedestrian fatalities.
Pedestrian deaths are not the only bad thing that can happen when driving.
what about in the city, cars hitting pedestrians?
When pedestrians have accidents they get a bit flustered and apologise. When cars have accidents people die.It's not that unreasonable to have a different law for cars than for pedestrians.
"Once I had a cop have a chat to me about jaywalking but I've never been fined. I would be pissed if I ever was. In a fight between a car and a pedestrian the pedestrian loses (big time) so pedestrians have a higher vested interest in their own safety"Look at how many people drive off cliffs, into trees, or into other cars when a deer runs across the road. Vested interests in safety aside, it's always dangerous to do something unexpected in traffic.
Safer for pedestrians, not for the drivers.
The problem is that it's killing people that aren't in cars, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/pedestrian-cyclist-dea...
They're less likely to run over pedestrians.
Expect when it doesn't actually do that, I guess? Like when this pedestrian was killed?