Comment on Car hits pedestrians in Melbourne, killing Supernova Comic Con attendee

• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s no way to safely mix cars with people. If there was, we would have done it by now. If anything else killed as many people as cars, we would ban it.

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  • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alcohol kills more people than cars every year.

    Banning cars would radically alter every person’s lifestyle and require massive replanning of cities. It’s a ridiculous proposal.

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    • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The fact that you can’t imagine a world without cars is scary. Humans survived 10s of thousands of years without them. We’ve had cars just over 100 years. They’re not integral to the human experience.

      Try to imagine better public transport, more people riding bikes and scooters, walkable cities.

      How much of our cities do we give up to cars? Between roads and parking, it’s too much. Even then they still mount the footpath and kill people.

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      • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dude wtf are you talking about, it’s not that I can’t imagine a world without cars, its that the amount of shit that would need to be done to remove cars from modern life would be a massive, slow, expensive project. You’d need to completely redesign cities and pour incalculable amounts of money into the project, while huge swathes of the population protest rabidly against the changes.

        Like, sure you can plan changes to cities to reduce the reliance on cars, but its a long, slow process that takes a huge amount of time and political will to enact. Just saying “ban cars” is an incredibly simple minded, knee jerk reaction to the issue.

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is.

    There are villages in the Netherlands where there is no grade separation, bike paths, foot paths or even lane markings.

    There are no street signs; the only road rule is to try to keep to the right, where safe and don’t try to occupy the same space as any other road user.

    They have no collisions because every road user understands that every other road user has as much right to be there as they do.

    When you put artificial rules in place that gives someone else more rights than someone else, that person will feel more entitled. They are less likely to respect other road users.

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  • FireXtol@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Guns recently overtook cars as the number 1 killer of children in the good ol US of A.

    The only thing we seem to be banning is people of colors with funny accents and social safety nets.

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Relevance?

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      • FireXtol@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        None to you, apparently.

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    • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your US and A is a strange place. In Australia guns killed 30 or so people and we banned them.

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      • FireXtol@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yea…. I’m in my 40s…

        I think humanity has jumped the shark.

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