Someone drove into a family this evening. Two boys are severely injured. Iโm shaking because it happened super close and it could have been anyone I know, or me.
Growing up, I lived in a rural area. I was decently car-brained because of it too, but rode bike just about every day until I got my license. 2 years ago I moved to a walkable neighborhood in my city, and started to embrace the idea of walking instead of driving when I didnโt need to. Recently I gave in to my curiosity and downloaded an app for rental bikes/scooters. I forgot how much fun riding bike actually is! My city is also expanding itโs bike lanes all over the place. If it isnโt for work, Iโm not driving!
A man is killed because road workers put safety signage in the middle of a cycle lane and the coroner has made two recommendations - that the council use a different colour sandbag, and that cyclists be told to be more careful
When automobiles first started tearing through American streets a century ago, they werenโt exactly welcome. One of the main problems was that they were killing children: in 1921 alone, 286 children in Pittsburgh, 130 in Baltimore, and 97 in Washington, D.C. Cities memorialized the dead with monuments and solemn marches. A safety council in Detroit commemorated traffic deaths by ringing bells at city hall and churches; another in Brooklyn put up a โDeath-O-Meterโ near a major traffic circle that kept a running tally of those injured or killed.
Across the US, people are increasingly defaulting on their car loans โ a dire economic indicator because these loans are usually the last payment Americans are willing to miss. Meanwhile, auto insurers are raking in record profits after hiking rates.
While we think of automobiles as an integral part of American life, the fact is that theyโre just objectively a bad form of transportation. Theyโre costly, they donโt scale well, and theyโre a leading cause of death in the country. The oil and automobile lobbies have done a lot of work to make it feel like thereโs no way we could live without cars, but the fact remains that itโs very possible to take significant steps to diminish the relevance of cars in everyday life. This week, Adam sits with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, hosts of the War on Cars podcast, and the authors along with Aaron Naparstek of the new book LIFE AFTER CARS: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
WASHINGTON (AP) โ Anthony Taylor will never forget the look of horror on the studentโs face. The school crossing guard was walking into the crosswalk in front of Washington Township High School in Indianapolis when a car with a young boy and his mom, who was dropping him off at school, suddenly appeared. The momโs eyes grew wide, and the boy began vigorously hitting on his motherโs chest.
Minor rant. I got new tires last year. Today i went to get my oil changed and while I was there I asked for my tires to be rotated. They found a puncture of a nail or something right on the edge so the patch would need to be on the side wall which no one does. The only place around that sold used tires doesnโt do that anymore. If i wanted to get it fixed it was going to cost me $200 to replace the tire. I did not drive in any crazy places, just got unlucky enough that my personal 2 ton death machine found this tiny little piece of metal that I wouldnโt have even had a chance to see and avoid, and got it stuck in a place thatโs apparently unfixable.
Traffic collisions involving police officers that caused severe injuries or deaths have resulted in multiple large payouts due to civil litigation in recent years.
PORTUGAL: National train operator CP and a consortium of Alstom and its local partner Domingos da Silva Teixeira have formally signed a โฌ746m contract for supply of 117 electric multiple-units, and the government has authorised CP to exercise a โฌ212.7m option for 36 more.
General Motorsโ new self-driving system will let the driver speed down the highway without looking at the road. Itโs one of several features enabled by the adoption of machine intelligence in cars.
If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we donโt, but a man can dream though. A man can dream though. A man can dream.
On Thursday night, hospital staff could not promptly transfer Somkhuan, 69, who was in critical condition after an acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack, and respiratory failure, to Krabi Hospital in Muang district.
Tesla has added another brazenly stupid new entry to its dubious safety record. The latest update to Teslaโs Full Self-Driving System adds a mode called Mad Max, โwhich comes with higher speeds and more frequent lane changesโ than the systemโs Hurry mode. This feature isnโt new; it was part of the Autopilot mode in 2018 that pre-dated FSD. According to Electrek, the re-introduction of Mad Max mode is going exactly as well as youโd expect: โIt hasnโt been out for 24 hours, and it has already been spotted rolling stop signs and driving more than 15 mph (24 km/h) over the speed limit.โ
Data shows PHEVs emit just 19% less CO2 than petrol and diesel cars, an analysis by the non-profit advocacy group Transport and Environment found on Thursday. Under laboratory tests, they were assumed to be 75% less polluting.
Got an email today from the dutch cycling association because they are celebrating their 50th cakeday in which they shared a post with some of their old posters. Most donโt make sense if you donโt speak dutch, but theyโre here: https://www.fietsersbond.nl/50-jaar-fietsersbond-campagnes-en-posters/
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