“By not acting, we are signaling to dangerous motorists that this kind of behaviour is acceptable. We suspect the message received by the injured people, their families and all vulnerable road users is that their safety is of little concern." — Dave Shellnutt (The Biking Lawyer)
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The law is currently geared to protect automobile manufacturers and their customers from the criminal and civil liability when a dangerous product is used by negligent drivers to kills or injures pedestrians and bicyclists.
The laws need to change.
If you hit anyone or anything with a car, you should be held 100% responsible. A bicyclist or pedestrian or a street sign are never at fault when they are hit by a driver.
Cars are unsafe because they are too heavy and move too fast. It's simple physics. Half the mass times the velocity squared equals the kinetic energy. KE=1/2mv^2 Cut the weight and the speed to make cars safer.
Car manufacturers should be sued every time a driver does damage or causes injury with one of their dangerous products.
If drivers and car manufacturers were held criminally and civilly liable for any and all collisions. Cars might look like this Toyota Coms and they would have speed limiters on them.
An oversized SUV, virtual reality to show adults what it’s like for kids to be faced with huge vehicles. Great idea. We should have that everywhere in the city. Start with mall parking lots?
Better yet, regulate the hell out of SUVs or make them illegal.
"A plan to expand #London's clean air scheme which charges the most polluting vehicles in the city will go ahead at the end of next month after London's High Court ruled it lawful.
The British capital's Ultra Low Emission Zone (#ULEZ) levies a 12.50 pound ($16) daily charge on drivers of non-compliant vehicles in order to tackle #pollution and improve #AirQuality."
"Leading doctors and scientists have warned politicians against watering down plans to expand city-wide schemes aimed at reducing traffic pollution levels linked to thousands of deaths each year.
Mark Hayden, a #London-based paediatric hospital consultant, said: “Some of the children [I treat] would not be coming into the hospital at all if they didn’t live in a polluted city. I patch up those children and send them back to the ‘war zone’.”