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Welcome back Khmer Rouge

There are plenty of recent vehicle safety improvements to be somewhat optimistic about future improvements.

Is it fast enough for me? Certainly not!

Safety improvements, including interventions on acceleration/decel are going to make a bigger impact than shitting on EVs for tire and brake dust.

Backup cameras are now required safety equipment. Automatic emergency braking and pedestrian airbags are already implemented in nicer brands like Volvo. That’s the pathway for mandated equipment.

Speed and stoplight camera enforcement comes and goes (see Tucson). It’s often allowed for cities.

I don’t know of any state where a city can impose a congestion fee without permission from the state legislature. NYC’s congestion tax ran through Albany at great peril.

I bet you could sell this to Sacramento. I don’t know it will fly in Arizona. Anyway, good for Cal YIMBY!

Why make this about EVs?

EV+ICE driving style impacts tire wear. EV brake wear varies more since EVs use regen for slow deceleration.

We should enforce speed limits to cut particulate pollution w/ traffic calming, more bike/transit infrastructure, and congestion fees. EVs aren’t the problem.

They idle “commonly” in a lot of urban driving scenarios, not literally 100% of the time.

Who the F needs a $70,000 SUV or truck?

Some people do. And many others don’t. Both groups would be extremely pissed to have a truck stolen.

They aren’t the whole team and they don’t run the team. If the university is willing to let the coaching staff slide…

She did do that…

If 1-3m is not enough for someone jaywalking across a busy road at night, then police shd be investigating a lot more drivers here. I think a lot of people would go bankrupt. A driver killing a jaywalker (or worse, a lawful ped) is far too common.

Can you share what amount you feel is fair?

When some private driver doesn’t see a ped crossing a busy dark road (likely some combo of unsafe crossing+distracted driver missing 1 sec of brake time), they can call 911 for the victim, show sobriety, and drive away w/o consequences.

It happens every week or two in Tucson. It’s barely news.

In the Uber fatality, Uber paid the family in a settlement (undisclosed amount assumed to be $1-3m), they suspended their AZ self-driving dev, and eventually sold the unit in 2020.

Uber’s safety driver plead guilty and got probation.

This is totally different than a distracted driver not w/ uber.

I’m glad Uber shut down their shitty program.

That said, the Uber safety driver was like so many other humans, except a company shared lots of data with police such that her prosecution was much, much easier than for private drivers who simply plead that “didn’t see” a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

About 7k pedestrians are killed each year by human drivers, and it’s not uncommon for human drivers to violate a pedestrian legal right of way, without charges since there are so many of these accidents and it takes time to prove endangerment.