This sort of punitive approach is generally less helpful in actually making things safer.

It is important to not cast motorists, even those who make poor choices, as “bad people”. They are just people, living in the world as best they can in the best way they know how.

Meanwhile, draconian measures which apply severe penalties to commonplace infractions tend to not work. (An aside: losing one’s license in an auto-dependent area is draconian, as it typically means losing huge amounts of one’s time, work opportunities, and social life.) Consistently, criminal justice research has shown that the severity of the penalty for breaking a law has a much lower impact on keeping people law abiding than simply increasing the public’s perception of adequate enforcement. A thief will hold up a liquor store at about the same rate whether the punishment is a $20 fine or the death penalty, since they just assume they won’t get caught. But they are much less likely to rob a liquor store when there is a cop standing on the street corner.

Increasing enforcement comes with its own problems however - like the increased cost of police presence and the potential for profiling individuals during traffic stops.

And finally, this sort of concept is a political non-starter. If you live in an auto oriented area like the one pictured, most people drive, and almost all of them will break the laws you’ve mentioned at least some of the time. Whatever politician floats this idea will be out on their ass almost before the words have left their mouth.

All these reasons are why urbanists emphasize infrastructure over enforcement.

Enforcement assumes humans are either perfect or evil. Infrastructure assumes humans are fallible.

Enforcement must be constantly paid to stand guard. Infrastructure must be built once, then has minimal maintenance costs.

Enforcement punishes those who get caught. Infrastructure prevents tragedies from happening in the first place.

Enforcement solidifies the auto oriented paradigm. Infrastructure subverts it.

Enforcement is a political lightning rod. Infrastructure is a political crowd pleaser.

Right. It’s the cars. But as long as the cars are there, a barrier is a good quick fix

I feel like getting hit by a car is a bigger hazard than choosing to walk/bike down a hill.

I think it’s more likely that a few C level execs just tried using AI to do their jobs for more than 10 minutes, said “man, this really doesn’t live up to the hype”, and wisely decided to hold off until AI wasn’t a huge waste of time.

No, people are fine reading long comments, or just scrolling past them. Lemmy also has collapsible comments to make this easier. No one is down voting your comment because it is long. They are down voting it because you didn’t write it.

I miss the good ol days when I could have a nice chat with the neighborhood cashier while I bought my used panties.

It’s okay. We all make mistakes sometimes.

It is extremely common for classes to require students to learn to use proprietary software. It’s a tool of the trade. If they graduate you without teaching you how to use it, they’d be fucking you over and ruining their own reputation. Like, imagine an accounting student graduating not knowing excel, because they did all their assignments using MatLab because they liked it better. It would be absolutely unthinkable for any potential employer to hire such a student. Excel is the software they use in that field. If a student wants to learn a different option in their free time, that’s fine and dandy.

I watched it. I agree. It’s conservative idiots. The reasons the single cyclist who actually gets to say anything gives are ridiculous. Cyclists routinely avoid all sorts of obstructions without issue. It’s not hard to not catch your handlebars on a bollard in a 4 foot wide bike lane. And while the bollards wouldn’t stop a driver intent on murdering a cyclist, they will do a lot to keep drivers more alert of where their space ends and the cyclists’ begins, stopping them from absentmindedly drifting into the bike lane.

Of course, there’s a lot to criticize about the bike lanes. But the only real explaination for so much public outcry isn’t legitimate concerns about safety, but culture war bullshit.

Ah, that must explain why car drivers kill thousands each year, while cyclists kill no one. Clearly these measures are working!

Apparently, any Indian names until I can see how they are spelled.

Nah - usually stolen cars are just taken for a joyride or something, and then are left on a random street. Eventually someone will report an abandoned vehicle or a cop will pull up to give them a parking ticket, they’ll run the plates, and you’ll get a notification that they found your car.

And yet its fanbase will keep dragging it backward

I think there won’t be nearly as much unwanted pregnancy still. Kids these days - first of all - just aren’t fucking as much. But also they are better informed about the risks of pregnancy and how to prevent it. And abortions are quite destigmatize now, and people are motivated to get them. If necessary, they can buy an abortion pill on the internet or drive across state lines.

They were also in denial that sitcoms were, for the most part, terrible.

Honestly, I’ve tried gardening, and it is a ton of work and just not my cup of tea. I’d rather build, like, a big front porch that comes out to the street, and then have some vines on trellises, and maybe a tree or two.

This honestly seems like an entirely normal, acceptable, and possibly legal thing to do. It is safer for cyclists making turns to get out ahead of traffic, so that turning traffic hasn’t accelerated by the time the encounter the cyclist. And moving to the front of traffic between lanes is the same maneuver as motorcycle filtering, which is allowed in many areas as it improves both safety and traffic flow.

Imo, fault lies on the operator of the multi-ton vehicle who went through special training to learn how to safely operate said vehicle, the government for any lack of appropriate training, the vehicle manufacturer for creating such blind spots on their vehicle, and again, the government for not recognizing these blind spots and making modifications to the vehicle to account for them.

Yes. That way they could make a map and get updoots

The criteria is they add up to 50%

1. We’re talking about bicycles, not ebikes
2. So that same child should ride their bicycle on a street with pickups going 65mph while texting and driving?