• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I appreciate a car manufacturer acknowledging that their product is dangerous to people outside of the car but a better way to mitigate injuries would be to make speed restriction devices standard on all cars. If the car can’t go faster than 30kph in the city and 20kph near houses and schools, the cars would rarely kill anyone even when they hit someone. #FuckCars

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      10 hours ago

      Reducing the height of the hood would also significantly reduce fatalities. It’s hilariously sad that they’re testing this system on an SUV, where the kids and shorter adults hit by this thing won’t make it to the windshield.

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        9 hours ago

        Put the engine in the middle or back of the car’s frame and move the driver all the way to the front in a glass bubble where they can’t use the excuse that they didn’t see what was in front of the car. Also if they go to fast and hit something, they get hurt immediately. Risk to the driver will make them more cautious.