PedestrianError

@ComicalMayhem @huppakee Yeah. Rational urban planning.

@Jesus_666 @RejZoR I agree, as long as non-car owners are considered. If a kei car owner gets a rebate, non-car owners should get an even bigger one.

@nanook @aeischeid No one capable of basic logic thinks 15 minute cities have anything to do with restricting travel. Either you're being disingenuous, or you're sorely lacking in the logic you think you possess.

@pixxelkick If children can't walk to their neighborhood grocery store safely, that's a societal problem, not an individual one. Instead of looking for a scapegoat to punish, fix the fucking neighborhood so it doesn't keep happening (to adults as well as children).

@pixxelkick There was no negligent behavior. Why have we become a culture that criminalizes every aspect of motherhood (ignoring the father's role as an equal co-parent) from having an abortion or even a miscarriage to not keeping your children on a leash for the entire 18 years they are minors (or at least 16, at which time if you can afford to buy them a car you can let them loose to kill people) and then bitches that women don't make enough babies?

@pixxelkick You haven't traveled much outside the United States of AmeriCar, have you? Building stroads through neighborhoods, making it unsafe for people of any age to walk to their nearest grocery store, is the problem. Almost all other high income countries have been steadily reducing their traffic fatalities for decades while the US does the opposite. Which system represents progress?

@fodor @pixxelkick Contrast this with the treatment of rich white parents who buy their teenage children cars and allow them to continue using them unsupervised despite evidence that they routinely speed, drive distracted, and otherwise violate traffic laws when their teenager kills someone with their weapon.

@Alaik @Aragaren It's quite possible the driver was following all the rules and using the road exactly as intended and wasn't able to stop in time because the road design and speed limit encouraged drivers of any age to travel at speeds incompatible with child pedestrian traffic despite being in a populated area surrounded by homes and stores. It's also possible they wanted to retire from driving but were thwarted by the same demonic traffic engineers and land use planners.

@pixxelkick @JSocial For most of history and in most societies today, it was and is absolutely routine for parents to let 7 and 10 year old siblings walk a few blocks together. When my mom was 7, she was responsible for walking her 5 year old brother to school and that wasn't at all unusual in their neighborhood. The problem is the number and size of cars and stroads, not a lack of helicopter parenting.

@Semi_Hemi_Demigod @HiddenLayer555 And sadly many US residents including those employed as traffic engineers or school facilities planners and transportation officials don't see that as unusual or inappropriate.

@MisterFrog @azimir And keep driving faster and more distracted and encouraging the government to widen the roads to speed up traffic.

@Not_mikey @Wxfisch Yes, the average consumer is quite susceptible to marketing and follows trends in everything from clothes to food & drink to toothbrushes. Many will look around at their peers and try to "keep up with the Joneses". Rather than evidence that car companies are simply responding to consumer demand, that shows they're creating the demand that most benefits their bottom line and looser regulation on vehicles classified as light trucks is a big part of why they market what they do.