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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 3 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)

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago

Fuck cars

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

be still my beating heart

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We need to ban them.

lol

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a pretty reasonable long-term goal in many areas, like cities. There are pedestrian-only streets near me already. We just need a long-term vision and the infrastructure to follow it.

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You can certainly reduce the presence of cars in certain areas and improve the design of cities to this end. But just saying "ban cars" is idiotic.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're laughing at a pedestrian being killed and another seriously injured. You should be ashamed of yourself

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is your reading comprehension really this bad? I'm laughing at your incredibly simple minded call to ban cars.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dude wtf are you talking about, the world is a very different place now to what it was 10000 years ago. 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.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

I'm not saying it will be easy. But we should be moving in that direction.

[–] FireXtol@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] FireXtol@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yea.... I'm in my 40s...

I think humanity has jumped the shark.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Relevance?

[–] FireXtol@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

None to you, apparently.