Comment 41119

By zippo (registered) | Posted May 24, 2010 at 11:41:59

Agreed, We could start a "False sense of security" file included in which could be "deaf child" signs, those "Baby on board" signs that you still sometimes see in the rear windows of cars, Styrofoam hats Um, sorry, "bicycle helmets", etc.

"Drivers need to behave at all times as if they fully understand the difference between themselves and pedestrians, and that someone on foot is at a distinct disadvantage in any encounter with a car. Maybe they simply need to drive on city streets as if everyone walking is a deaf child, or as if a deaf child is playing nearby."

Of course this is undeniable in theory, but we have a hundred years of history with the car which shows that some drivers will do otherwise most of the time, and many drivers will do otherwise at least some of the time.

As a culture we have normalized the resulting carnage as "tragic but inevitable". Morally indefensible in my opinion, but there you go.

Here's hoping that the post peak oil reality to car culture will be less bloody

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