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Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sure, but a lot more crashes are caused by poor design (including design that facilititates law-breaking) than mechanical failures or lack of enforcement.

In particular, I want to address the latter: trying to stop people from speeding by having more police patrols simply doesn't work. The only thing that does work is physically changing the design of the street (narrowing lanes, etc.) to make it scarier and less comfortable for drivers to go too fast. That's the engineers' responsibility, not law enforcement's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously - the most dangerous roads I've ever been on were in Texas where there were 12 lane highways, and crazy people who wanted to drive 100MPH past you in the right-hand lane, all while people are merging on and off the highway.

Doing the speed limit meant that EVERYONE was driving faster than you, which meant that you were a lot more likely to get rear-ended from someone who didn't see you in time. You have to speed to stay safe, and then you add in construction zones and it's just a death trap.

Where is our public transportation option?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

the most dangerous roads I’ve ever been on were in Texas where there were 12 lane highways

I understand why you feel like those were the most dangerous, but statistically, freeways are the safest kind of road. It's places like stroads that you should really be scared of.