Cars are unsafe at any speed. We need to ban them.
This guy was known to police and was driving a rental. It was relatively recent vehicle with pedestrian safety systems that were not sufficient.
We don’t need to ban cars, we need to enforce restrictions and change our culture to make people who drive to be more accountable.
We need to have infrastructure so that people aren’t required to have a licence and car to survive.
We need to restrict access from people who should not be driving.
We need to stop relying on ANCAP to determine if a vehicle is safe. There testing methods are flawed and favour the big-players in the Automotive industry. (In some cases literal “big” players)
Fuck cars
Fuck cars
We need to ban them.
lol
It’s a pretty reasonable long-term goal in many areas, like cities. There are pedestrian-only streets near me already. We just need a long-term vision and the infrastructure to follow it.
You can certainly reduce the presence of cars in certain areas and improve the design of cities to this end. But just saying “ban cars” is idiotic.
Humanity has lived longer without them than with them, and even in present day, there’s still real places with people living in it that bans cars (at least for personal use ones, emergency/service vehicles still allowed)
That’s a ridiculous comparison, that video is about a single neighbourhood. You’d need to completely redesign and rebuild any modern city to function without cars.
Not as ridiculous as thinking places with denser population cannot function without the mode of transportation that is less efficient. You just cannot imagine anything else because you have only lived in cities that are designed for cars. Also redesigning can faster than you think, a lot of destinations can get closer together by just changing how zoning laws work and ending parking requirements, no tearing down buildings required.
You’re laughing at a pedestrian being killed and another seriously injured. You should be ashamed of yourself
Is your reading comprehension really this bad? I’m laughing at your incredibly simple minded call to ban cars.
There’s no way to safely mix cars with people. If there was, we would have done it by now. If anything else killed as many people as cars, we would ban it.
There is.
There are villages in the Netherlands where there is no grade separation, bike paths, foot paths or even lane markings.
There are no street signs; the only road rule is to try to keep to the right, where safe and don’t try to occupy the same space as any other road user.
They have no collisions because every road user understands that every other road user has as much right to be there as they do.
When you put artificial rules in place that gives someone else more rights than someone else, that person will feel more entitled. They are less likely to respect other road users.
Guns recently overtook cars as the number 1 killer of children in the good ol US of A.
The only thing we seem to be banning is people of colors with funny accents and social safety nets.
Relevance?
Your US and A is a strange place. In Australia guns killed 30 or so people and we banned them.
Yea… I’m in my 40s…
I think humanity has jumped the shark.
Alcohol kills more people than cars every year.
Banning cars would radically alter every person’s lifestyle and require massive replanning of cities. It’s a ridiculous proposal.
The fact that you can’t imagine a world without cars is scary. Humans survived 10s of thousands of years without them. We’ve had cars just over 100 years. They’re not integral to the human experience.
Try to imagine better public transport, more people riding bikes and scooters, walkable cities.
How much of our cities do we give up to cars? Between roads and parking, it’s too much. Even then they still mount the footpath and kill people.
Dude wtf are you talking about, the world is a very different place now to what it was 10000 years ago. It’s not that I can’t imagine a world without cars, its that the amount of shit that would need to be done to remove cars from modern life would be a massive, slow, expensive project. You’d need to completely redesign cities and pour incalculable amounts of money into the project, while huge swathes of the population protest rabidly against the changes.
Like, sure you can plan changes to cities to reduce the reliance on cars, but its a long, slow process that takes a huge amount of time and political will to enact. Just saying “ban cars” is an incredibly simple minded, knee jerk reaction to the issue.
