Comment 115793

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted December 22, 2015 at 14:00:11 in reply to Comment 115789

Are air bags and seat belts in cars abdicating the responsibility of drivers to drive safely? What about the new collision sensing radars? Are daylight running lights absolving drivers responsibility to be attentive? If there are ways to make equipment safer and fault-tolerant you should do it. People should be careful AND equipment should be designed to be fault-tolerant. You don't need to make a choice!

And there are many simple ways to make our streets safer that have already been proven to work in other cities, mainly reducing design speeds to 30 km/h which means reaction times are long enough to avoid most accidents and any accidents that do happen are unlikely to be fatal. Or restricting right turns on red. Or ensuring pedestrians crossings are abundant and safe. Or widening sidewalks.

Keeping dangerous equipment in place when safer alternatives are available is irresponsible.

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2015-12-22 14:01:06

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