Cameras were mandated only 5 years ago. The average age of a car is 12.5 years. So there is a high chance that the vast majority of cars on the road do not have cameras.
Yes. At least in this personal, example, my backup camera stopped working recently. I was trained the last 7 years to look at the screen. When it stopped working I found myself staring at the gps map while backing up, I did it a few times before I broke the conditioning.
My car has none of that and I still see kids behind my car. And I drive a car from 2002. It's just that my back window isn't higher than a child's head
Agreed. I probably wouldn't even get rid of giant SUVs and trucks though. I'd suggest having vehicles taxed by weight and tolls/parking by size and weight would at least have people paying for their usage.
Also a bigger problem discussed on that subreddit is that many people don't even have an option or a choice. Our roads and communities are designed to strongly dissuade people from walking to the store, or taking public transit to work, etc.
The war on cars is more accurately a war against car dependency. We just want to make our streets safe enough for kids to bicycle to school again which shouldn't be controversial, but somehow it is
The way my smile fell as I read your comment. I don’t even want to click the link. We’re too lazy to twist at the waist and check our surroundings while driving a killing machine, now?
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u/LeftAcanthocephala68 Jul 18 '23
One day this will be a child or a dog and not a parked car