Safer cars don't do very much for pedestrians, who are no match for
drivers on cellphones or computers.
Distracted, cellphone-using, and computer-using drivers are a
particular menace to anyone who takes public transportation and who
is therefore a pedestrian a lot of the time. Just try crossing any
street in, for example, Bethesda, where the ambitious, constantly
electronically connected, Type A drivers cruise--you're taking your
life in your hands, because you can't count on any of them paying
attention to the road. And don't even think about the tourists, who
have always thought of Washington as some kind of giant theme park
with audioanimatronic robots instead of pedestrians, and who are even
more potentially lethal now that they're riveted to their GPS units
and their cellphones.
Human flesh versus a ton of speeding metal--it's no contest.
No many how many safety improvements you put in the car.
--Constance Warner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:27 AM, George Carr wrote:
Technology helped to create this problem but technology eventually
will
provide solutions such as safer cars, reliable crash-avoidance
systems, and
even vehicles that drive themselves. Meanwhile people need to focus
on their
driving. Did I read somewhere about a car-based system that would
disable
cell phones when the car is moving?
we just cannot have folks driving around doing all that stuff,
sometimes multiple things at once, hands-free or not.
Steve
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