A pediatric doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/deadly-3-car-crash-rittenhouse-philadelphia/3915690/
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As a CAR PERSON if we’d just use all the money spent on roads to build public transport and walkable streets and we wouldnt need to pay a road tax for cars we could just use the money to build racetracks to enjoy fast cars. Every problem solved. Also if a few people just race sometimes and people dont commute by car every day, pollution form gas cars wouldnt be a problem.
As a fellow car person I endorse this idea fully. It would also be great to increase the knowledge and skill levels required for a license.
Also, make every car manual so people can’t use their phones while driving.
Edit: What if we turned old mall parking lots into racetracks?
I agree with this too, except that last bit. Making a car manual has a near zero affect on people’s use of phones when driving.
I say this as someone that used to use T9 to text when driving a manual car. Mind you that was 20 ish years ago when I was a stupid teenager, but there really was no difference between manual/automatic and using my phone when driving other than the added step of shifting.
To be fair, texting via t9 on physical buttons was way safer than fumbling around on a touch screen. I dit it blindly all the time.
You aren’t wrong lol.
Fellow former T9 texter here. I had one or two near misses as a teenager and cut that shit right out.
Can confirm that back when it was still legal, I was using my phone while driving a manual car
“Hold on, have to shift…ok, so what’s up?”
Can also confirm that even today it is still very easy to use the phone and drive manual, especially since the phone is addictive
As a car person in a city that used to have a race track, heck yeah! No more sideshows in neighborhoods too!
As a bicycle person, I’d love to rent the race track on off days or maintenance days.
On the other hand, how am I going to reach the race track if there is no high speed road to there?
Public transport? You mean those closed cabins where people go to spread their flu? No thank you.
Well, road maintenance would become significantly cheaper if most of the traffic were bicycles instead of cars though, so that’d be a win. And 6 lane highways could be easily reduced to 4 lane ones, to have space for emergency vehicles and the occasional hauler, with the remaining lane kept for public transport and footpath construction.
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