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Car hits pedestrians in Melbourne, killing Supernova Comic Con attendee (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 days ago by DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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Cars are unsafe at any speed. We need to ban them.

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

This guy was known to police and was driving a rental. It was relatively recent vehicle with pedestrian safety systems that were not sufficient.

We don’t need to ban cars, we need to enforce restrictions and change our culture to make people who drive to be more accountable.

We need to have infrastructure so that people aren’t required to have a licence and car to survive.

We need to restrict access from people who should not be driving.

We need to stop relying on ANCAP to determine if a vehicle is safe. There testing methods are flawed and favour the big-players in the Automotive industry. (In some cases literal “big” players)