These San Franciscans blame pedestrians for traffic deaths
sfstandard.com
San Francisco’s Vision Zero data suggest that in recent years, motorists were at fault in most pedestrian deaths by car. Still, some readers think city safety measures do more to inconvenience drivers than to protect those on foot.

Daylighting, which involves removing parked cars from around crosswalks in order to improve visibility and just wiped out about 14,000 street parking spaces, has proved especially controversial.

“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer,” Nina Geneson Otis wrote in an email to The Standard. The real estate broker said daylighting is the kind of policy that makes Democrats lose elections.

Others say the city’s actions remove responsibility from pedestrians to look out for their own safety. “A pedestrian can do anything, and be irresponsible, and no harm will come to them?” Brandi said, describing the policies as “idiot-proof.”

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    25 days ago

    In the automatics I’ve driven, the car automatically downshifts if it needs more power to climb the hill – do some automatics just stall out?

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Sometimes you really gotta ask it to downshift by pushing the pedal down then most follow through with high speed cause they are worried to lose it. Way easier to just start in a good gear.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        25 days ago

        For me if I let up on the gas, it will slow down, and then downshift to be able to maintain the slower speed on the hill.