Crossposted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7136711
Have you notice how the general opinion is that people getting hit by cars somehow deserved it? My best friend was hit by a text-and-drive kindof woman. He was an athlete and now he can't walk more than a few hundred meters.
Great article. Thank you for sharing.
As deaths mounted, anti-car activists sought to slow them down. In 1920, Illustrated World wrote, "Every car should be equipped with a device that would hold the speed down to whatever number of miles stipulated for the city in which its owner lived."
We have GPS maps with speed limits built in. They should definitely bring this back.
GPS isn't quite accurate/reliable enough. I know there are issues with shared scooters/bikes that are speed limited by GPS (I specifically heard this complaint about Neuron's scooters and bikes in Waterloo, Ontario).
I'd much prefer we design the roads to limit speeds.
You are right, especially on overpasses and parallel roads.
Do speedbumps count as roads designed to limit speeds? Lol
Do speedbumps count as roads designed to limit speeds? Lol
Yes, though they're generally considered bad road design. I'd prefer continuous sidewalks (which are kind of speedbumps), bumpouts, reducing road width, chicanes, pavers on slow roads, etc.
Yeah I was thinking about which article it was that detailed the automotive industry’s very effective attempt at blaming pedestrians for an uptick in accidents involving pedestrians. Almost like being able to walk freely is less important than being able to drive freely, now we get to see the repercussions.
Isn't that what jaywalking is?
The cartoonist saw it coming.
Yes. Yes it is.
Appears to be by William Haselden. Reddit claims it was published 27 Feb 1924, but I can't find it on BCA. He was a cartoonist for The Daily Mirror who did a LOT of comics of this theme, though
https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/Advanced.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog
That last panel applies to everything.
It's gotta be said:
I'm on board with panel 2
You are on board with having disregarded a policeman?
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