shitty urban design is a bigger reason than people think
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Hey now don't forget horribly designed vehicles that are really popular now.
I see those lifted brodozers everywhere and one literally killed a pedestrian weeks ago in a nesrby city where one of my friends lives.
If the hood is too tall to see an adult let alone a child, that thing is just gonna drag people under it's tires.
The low to the ground hood design we had in sedans and coupes was literally a safety feature that allowed a pedestrian who was hit to roll over the top of the vehicle.
US drivers are notoriously bad drivers.
I mean hey, it's in our constitution: the three unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—brought to you by Shell, Jeep, and the open stroad, respectively.
What people in the US are bad at is examining systems because we're conditioned to believe everything is the sum of individual choice and ability.
In my Florida city it's high for several reasons:
Bad underfunded public transportation means everybody and their grandmas are driving whether they should be or not. With sprawl it's difficult to keep a job without a car.
Cars don't always stop even when pedestrians have the legal right to cross, they have a might makes right mentality or just aren't used to looking for humans in the crosswalk at the intersection.
I will say that every person here knows someone killed by a car, the rate may look kinda low on a population level but it reaches across all of us, so I don't understand how it doesn't get addressed. The city government here does try, but is constrained by the county and state, and even the lighted crosswalks are often violated, they need gates like a railroad crossing, and more pedestrian bridges. There are a few places we can walk under a bridge here, they are old, and very cool, but no place to cross the river that isn't a car road, not many places to cross the car road except on the surface of the road.
Anyone else feel that site reads like AI? Registered 2023, all posts have the same format. New random articles every 3-4 days complete with research & graphs. Occasionally off topic.
I've been wrong before though. It's hard for me to identify AI content sometimes.
You'd have to be Artificially-Stupid to think that graph had sufficient distinction between the traces. FML. What a way to waste those data.