That’s totally understandable but deniability is also the entire point of dogwhistles. They use code and implication to publicly signal eachother in a way they normally couldn’t.

I was going to make a joke about how the game characters seemed to let eighty seven infestations happen before finally doing something, but then I read further into the article, and now it isn´t funny anymore.

I have an in-law who is notorious in our family for using her phone while driving and - and I’m NOT kidding here - sometimes even using an iPad in her lap while driving, bracing her knees up against the steering wheel.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they carved out some exemption for themselves because they’re emergency responders or whatever bullshit.

Or tax the living shit out of the cruise ships

Yeah, I think meaningful enforcement of cellphone bans would make a bigger impact to traffic safety than just about anything else. My office is on a busy midtown block in a medium city, and I have to wait a few minutes to cross the street. I would say 7/10 people are actively using their phone as they drive by. I…

You definitely have a point, but also more people drive bigger cars now AND there are few (if any) smaller options these days. These problems compound each other.

What US do you live in where they ban dangerous drivers after they kill people? Because here in the USA we even let drivers who kill somebody drive home from the scene.

Small cars were gone long before Covid.

The big problem here in the US is that we don’t ban enough dangerous drivers until they kill someone. The man who broke my back, fractured my skull & left me in a brief coma was never injured in the five life changing injury accidents he caused with his drunk driving thanks to owning a Mercedes 500 series. In the…

they weren’t AS profitable

Imagine if we used the efficiencies modern ICE engines have achieved in concert with cars that weighed what they did in the early 90's.  Your average Camry would get absurdly great mileage.

It is a shame that someone had to die in order for her to be punished for such awful behavior behind the wheel.

There was a local woman who would use her electronic devices while driving her black Honda Odyssey so much that a local reporter even covered how she would shout “F#ck You” to anyone that had a problem with her driving. This is also what she said to me after almost T-boning my car while she ran a red light while…

...they weren’t profitable...

This.

It’s not about what’s safest for the consumers buying the cars. They’re safer than they’ve ever been, because that’s where all the development has gone. It’s everyone out on the roads who’s not in a ginormous vehicle to protect them from those other ginormous vehicles that’s at risk. 

I honestly don’t know how much of this is driven by ‘customers’. That’s part of it, for sure, but I think a lot of it is companies trying to push US customers toward larger (and more profitable) vehicles by getting rid of a lot of smaller options and making what remains less appealing in terms of design,…

Well to be fair bigger cars ARE safer in a collision, for the driver. People equate size with safety. And shit at this point it has become an arms race to drive the biggest thing ever. I remember in the 90's when the Excursion came out everyone freaking out it’s so huge, doesn’t seem that huge anymore compared to a…

Big Cars have always been around, yes when a big car hits a smaller car or a human the results are worse than when a small car hits a small car, but there is more to the increase in collisions and injuries than just size of the vehicle.