I wonder if regulators and legislators have taken a serious look at the injuries caused by automobiles... press.coop/@latimes/1111673186

@glightly

Do they cause injuries? or are these injuries / deaths caused by drivers, or specifically bad driving or drivers.

@zleap However, note the difference in how quickly things are clamped down on modes that are not cars.

My e-assist quadricycle has a speed governor that limits me to 20mph. Auto drivers have no such speed governors.

@glightly @zleap Vehicle pedals are so poorly design that folks frequently accelerate too fast one direction or another into structures and people (even when there aren’t vehicle defects where the brake gets stuck). That kind of error probably causes thousands of crashes per year and likely far more injuries than e-bikes or onewheels. Regulators have chosen to treat those as “user error” rather than design flaws of the vehicles or the system. It’s frustrating. :/

@r343l @glightly

Here in Torbay they seem to use the breaks more often than the accelerator,

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