How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica

Or we could, you know, follow previously established methods of building vehicles that make pedestrian death and dismemberment less likely.

No, no, no. Americans need them this way apparently for some inexplicable fucking reason.

So instead of just designing them with pedestrian safety in mind to begin with, we are just gonna slap on more fucking band-aids (like cameras) that do fuck-all.

Require vehicle safety standards to test for pedestrian and cyclist survivability first and foremost.

Require a commercial license to drive large and/or heavy vehicles such as pickup trucks. Take it away when a driver gets caught driving unsafely.

Require vehicles to provide better visibility through the windshield, like Europe does.

Design street lanes to be narrow and winding, so that drivers intuitively choose to drive at speeds that are safe for people outside the vehicle. Raise pedestrian crossings at the same level as the sidewalk so that drivers habitually slow down when they see a crossing.

In other words, value the safety of the people outside the vehicle above the speed and convenience of the drivers.

If the children were driving their own SUVs this wouldn't be a problem.

The other day i saw a pickup truck trying to switch lane, they just put on the signal and attempted to switch, didn't realise there's a sedan just beside them. Dude couldn't even see who's honking them telling them not to switch.

Front end cameras? Are they serious? That isn't a solution to not being able to see in front of your car. 🤦

Make the darn thing smaller.

Or make kids wear football gear and helmets. Maybe they can even combine it with body armor for the occasional school shooting.

/s

Its been my motorcycle-riding experience that cameras or even designing the trucks better woukdn't help a lot, as the people who drive these things don't care if someone is in their way.

Make them even higher so that kids fit below them /s

Or, you know, change emissions regulations so that cars can be made smaller again.

Hate to tell you there's no singular villain trying to kill kids with cars.

Literally the only reason cars got this big is because minimum efficiency is the result of dividing mpg by square footage, and by law the number has to go down every year. I do not blame auto makers for simply making the same popular models a little bigger with each refresh so as not to have to redesign from scratch the things that took 100 years of engineering effort to get to the present level of function.

But then they also have to add a wiper to those cameras, they will get bloody from all those massacred bodies run over...

Yes... this will certainly stem the number of deaths caused by these rolling aircraft carriers... in the year 2040.

If you run them over you get extra points like Mario kart.