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Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” (road.cc)

submitted 2 weeks ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/fuckcars@lemmy.ca

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

bike lanes are more obvious than lane markers. this seems nuts.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

seems nuts, but then again, we're talking about cars that drive themselves, Waymo wants more of these on the roads. A cyclist is a lost customer, so they might as well kill them, yeah?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that is dark. then again there seems to be no low that is impossible now a days.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seeing how much death is caused as a direct consequence of organized hostility to groups outside of the ruling class is sadly a reality that, as low as it is, can't be ignored.

There's evidence about the double standard applied cars as well:

as study author and environmental psychologist Ian Walker succinctly put it on Twitter, showed that “‘Car Brain’ — the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving — is real, measurable and pervasive.”

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

teh car brain is definately something I don't get. I have to drive sometimes and absolutely loathe it. I don't get how blithe people are about the most commonly dangerous thing that is so pervasive in our lives. I wish so much I could live in the city center and that they would make it car free.

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

But annotation will take a loooong time and so much effort. It'll delay making money while they could just roll the dice and injure a few cyclists

[–] sanzky@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it depends a lot in the city. many cities do the absolute minimum and barely just add paint on the side.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

You know I had not thought about that. I actually live in a town that does the minimum. While the city has great infratstructure it had signs that said this is a bike route. Recently they got their first lanes and its on the dumbest of streets that only exists for a span and does not get to a boarder. So frustrating as there is a very obvious street to get lanes on. I hope to get them to do that street.