The_Caretaker

@RememberTheApollo_ Driving fast enough to kill a human or an animal instantly if you hit them, is no different than randomly firing your gun down the street blindfolded. You may not plan on killing a specific person and maybe you won’t hit anything at all, but it shouldn’t be allowed.

@RememberTheApollo_ @cm0002
Speed limiters should be standard on all cars, like seat-belts. They should be retrofitted on older cars. A GPS module isn’t that expensive. They are found in cheap phones that cost less than $50. Most cars on the road today have an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) The air and fuel mixture can be controlled to keep the car under a specific speed, easily. There is no reason a car needs to go 70 mph ever. 25 should be the top speed.

@kwr112233 @Evkob
Here in Japan, every convenience store, supermarket and retail store has bicycle parking. Nearly all apartment buildings, which they call mansions, also have bicycle parking.

@kwr112233 @SouthEndSunset
Not a freezer, a concrete planter with flowers or shrubs in it. #FuckCars #BanStreetParking

@bookcrawler @Retro_unlimited
It should be done to all cars as a safety feature like seat-belts. Cars are too heavy and they go too fast. Drivers kill 40,000+ people a year in the USA alone and send another 2,000,000 to the hospital with injuries. All new cars should have a speed restriction device on them and old cars should be retrofitted. A GPS module costs less than $50 and most cars already have an electronic control unit.

@Retro_unlimited @cm0002
“Stupid technology. Makes things more dangerous than it should be”
That would be cars themselves. 70mph is way too fast for a car to travel. It might be a decent speed for a train because trains are on a controlled fixed path where cars and pedestrians can only cross in front of them at controlled crossings. Highways are as controlled as a carnival bumper cars ride. 35mph seems about right for cars on the highway. Drivers also kill a lot of wildlife outside the cities.

@Ilovethebomb
Only because there were no airports. There were seaports. Trains, trolleys and horse drawn carriages went to the seaports.

@garbagebagel @lgsp
The belief that he and his car should have priority over pedestrians is a political view. Laws are made regarding the rights of pedestrians vs drivers. I think it could be a politically motivated hate crime though maybe not about race and more about social status. Maybe he just didn’t want to wait or take a detour.

@sin_free_for_00_days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyleH3H137c
Yes, how horrible it was without cars. People were able to go where they wanted without paying $50K plus insurance, gas and registration and they didn’t have traffic jams. How did they survive?

@sin_free_for_00_days Horse shit is better than car exhaust. No one is dying from cancer, asthma or bronchitis from horse shit. The reason there are no trains or trams near you in the USA is because the automakers and oil companies bought them and shut them down, not because cars are better. How many cars do you see on the road with all the seats full? Cars are too big and too heavy. They go too fast. They need to be smaller and slower. A golf cart is big enough. 30kph is fast enough.

@sin_free_for_00_days
People did all of those things before cars existed. #CarBrain #MotoNormativity #FuckCars

@cm0002 They should use devices to slow ALL cars. The devices should force all cars to stay under the speed limit and the speed limit should be 30 kilometers per hour.

@stevedice @technocrit
Not extremist at all. People have a right to walk or ride a bicycle without permission from the state. Walking or riding a bicycle poses little or no danger to others. Cars are known to be a deadly dangerous product and their use is not a right; it’s a revocable privilege. A driver is intentionally using a dangerous product in public and if someone who is not using the same dangerous product is injured, the driver is 100% responsible. #FuckCars

@null_dot
{Also a train might contain several hundred passengers while a tram might have a few dozen at most.}
True but what about the next one and the one after that etc etc? This driver didn’t just block the tram they blocked the line. Intent is proven by the obvious tracks that are being blocked by the car that the driver would have to have driven over to get to the parking space.

@mac Get found to be intentionally delaying a train in Japan and they bill you a huge amount of money. Not just for the train you delayed, it’s also all the trains on the line behind it that also get delayed. 1000 Euros a minute seem reasonable considering the lost money for the tram company and the lost time of thousands of riders. Plus reduced reputation for the reliability and punctuality of the service causes incalculable loss to the train / tram company.

@conditional_soup @shadowtofu
Would that mean that since the tram has the right of way on the tracks it can simply push the offending driver’s property off the tracks and any damage is legally the fault of the idiot driver?

@rabber @shadowtofu
Tram company makes money by moving people. When the tram line stops moving, they lose money by the minute. 1000 Euros per minute plus the standard fee for a parking ticket seems fair. That should make the driver pay attention in the future.

@oo1 @Hawk
Are you implying that if your job is important that you should have superior rights to use public space? What if the person on the bicycle is also a heart surgeon on their way to work?

@noxypaws Electric motors get warm, yes. They don’t have a fire inside of them. There is a big difference in how much of a cooling system they need.

@jenesaisquoi
I will look into it.