All automotive collisions are avoidable. In this case, it sounds like the driver was at fault. The road designers were at fault and probably politicians are also at fault.
I mean you make one method of transportation (also the deadliest) the main way of commuting with error prone humans (and occasionally vehicles), these things are going to happen.
Yeah but that’s not an excuse either. Even if your infrastructure only supports cars there are still safer vs cheaper choices. And if that Street view link is any indication, paint the damn lines.
FYI - one of my objections to self-driving cars: we never keep up the maintenance on even painting the lines. When I tried self driving, almost every time I took over was where there were no visible lines on the road
Agreed it is not an excuse but many circumstances involved with these scenarios to the degree of negligence.
It should also be a motivating factor for the state to support mass transit (although special interests want to block that). Self driving cars don’t eliminate the problem of car dependency, just enrich the tech companies and same auto industries making us dependent on cars.
When you choose to drive unsafely, you choose to drive with intent to kill.
There is a firm correlation between not wanting to murder others and driving carefully.
And while there are unfortunate accidents, the vast majority of pedestrian and cyclist deaths are caused by arseholes
Not accidents, collisions.
All automotive collisions are avoidable. In this case, it sounds like the driver was at fault. The road designers were at fault and probably politicians are also at fault.
I mean you make one method of transportation (also the deadliest) the main way of commuting with error prone humans (and occasionally vehicles), these things are going to happen.
Yeah but that’s not an excuse either. Even if your infrastructure only supports cars there are still safer vs cheaper choices. And if that Street view link is any indication, paint the damn lines.
FYI - one of my objections to self-driving cars: we never keep up the maintenance on even painting the lines. When I tried self driving, almost every time I took over was where there were no visible lines on the road
Agreed it is not an excuse but many circumstances involved with these scenarios to the degree of negligence.
It should also be a motivating factor for the state to support mass transit (although special interests want to block that). Self driving cars don’t eliminate the problem of car dependency, just enrich the tech companies and same auto industries making us dependent on cars.
@limer @Fredthefishlord But many of those arseholes aren’t driving, they’re sitting in offices designing dangerous streets or vehicles.