It's not even the public's fault or drivers faults. It's the responsibility of those who design the roads and adhere to the manuals that dictate and permit such dangerous roads.
Drivers are often irresponsible in how they operate their vehicles, but the standards should not be such that they must either operate their vehicles in an excellent state, or not go anywhere safely at all.
Aka I love to ride a train and read sometimes instead of having to directly control my vehicle, and when I am driving I hate how often I have to attend carefully to potential threats from every direction and modality. (Looking at you, east coast)
Compared to driving in Iceland, which was a dream.
America "just" has shit roads and shit road standards. And a touch of institutionalized ethnic cleansing.
Not just road design. Also car companies designing your average commuting vehicle to have ridiculous height and weight to ensure that nearly every collision leads to a fatality.
Excellent reframe. I used to bike on the beautiful country roads north of my house but no more. We’ve had several biking friends airlifted to shock trauma. Drivers are too distracted by their phones, among other things.
I think our country made a decision about 100 years ago. We decided to build everything around cars, not humans. The media propagates this, and so does every other embedded institution.
We also went through our industrial revolution right as the automobile was coming of age, and all of our infrastructure (unlike Europe) had yet to be built. The timing was a double-whammy.
It's not even the public's fault or drivers faults. It's the responsibility of those who design the roads and adhere to the manuals that dictate and permit such dangerous roads.
Drivers are often irresponsible in how they operate their vehicles, but the standards should not be such that they must either operate their vehicles in an excellent state, or not go anywhere safely at all.
Aka I love to ride a train and read sometimes instead of having to directly control my vehicle, and when I am driving I hate how often I have to attend carefully to potential threats from every direction and modality. (Looking at you, east coast)
Compared to driving in Iceland, which was a dream.
America "just" has shit roads and shit road standards. And a touch of institutionalized ethnic cleansing.
Not just road design. Also car companies designing your average commuting vehicle to have ridiculous height and weight to ensure that nearly every collision leads to a fatality.
Excellent reframe. I used to bike on the beautiful country roads north of my house but no more. We’ve had several biking friends airlifted to shock trauma. Drivers are too distracted by their phones, among other things.
I think our country made a decision about 100 years ago. We decided to build everything around cars, not humans. The media propagates this, and so does every other embedded institution.
We also went through our industrial revolution right as the automobile was coming of age, and all of our infrastructure (unlike Europe) had yet to be built. The timing was a double-whammy.