What ever happened to looking both ways before crossing? Why are we so worried about pedestrians. I watch out for them when i drive. but when i am walking i watch out for cars every time i step on a road. people are just getting dumber

A GIFfest to sum up my feelings on this issue.

DO NOT TEASE ME ALFA

Add this to the list of things I want James May to explain in a lecture.

That’s because there’s not much to tell. But people seem to be going a bit frothy at the mouth, so we figured we’d let you know.

In the US, better driver training.

Headlight wipers. I occasionally see them on a random European car, but they never seemed to take hold in the U.S.

Those automatic seatbelts. SO weird... yet... somehow kind of cool?

Pedestrian cow-catcher.

The compressible Bumper: Absorbing the impact but doing no damage. Maybe it was the bad plastics that would crack over time or just a change in regulations, but force absorbing bumpers went the way of Oldsmobile.

My Mom’s arm

Seatbelt/ignition interlocks. Back in the 70’s various automakers (and government agencies too? I don’t remember) thought they could force people to buckle up by not allowing the car to be started unless the seatbelt was buckled. It didn’t catch on. People found it annoying and the feature was easily circumvented.

Everyone usually goes 40km/h (the usual normal city speed limit)

True overall, but in some places I think the traffic engineers won and I had a seriously hard time staying near the limit (to the annoyance of people behind me). Mind you, I didn’t know the road, but if I held the limit people rarely came up behind me.

Speed limits are ridiculously low in all of Canada, and seem to be ignored even more than in the US.