Bonnet height for private vehicles should be tightly regulated, they are a key contributer to lethality in car accidents yet increasing every year. I could imagine some steep increase in taxes (at least at purchase if nothing else) the further you deviate from a defined reasonable height. People do care about money, make lethal asocial choices more expensive.

The US needs Ozempic for cars.

Sure and don’t get me wrong, this pro reckless driving action is nothing I support either.

Sure. But if roads are built for the speed, the road enforces the speed. If driving faster will shake you so badly that it feels like an accident, most people won’t do it. Also making streets narrow, with tight road crossings and curves, and subjectively more dangerous to the car drivers, actually makes streets safer, especially for people outside of cars.

Of course that is not possible everywhere and then speeding controls, including cameras are the next best thing.

I was considering the 30 min as brutto times. So 30 mins are 30 mins. The only thing to consider then are frequencies, if they are bad (which they are in most of the US admittedly).

Anyhow. This whole scenario sounds bemusing and absurd to my European ears. Do you only have one supermarket in town or why do you have to do a small world travel like that to get there? Is that what splendid car only urban planning turns cities into?

It all boils down to the fact that if you build cities primarily or exclusively for cars, transit sucks. It is like getting around in Venice by car. Of course it sucks (you are basically limited to drive in circles in the parking garage). I take neither car nor transit to make most groceries. I either do that at a transit exchange, on my way, spending practically zero travel time for it or walk 3 min to the store. I rarely feel the need to go to a hypermarket but if I do, it is a 5 min bus ride add a few min more for total travel time. That is only possible because my city is not primarily built for cars. Of course that’s nothing that can be achieved over night. However consider that it took the US also many decades to bulldoze its cities for the car. After all, they used to be built for transit as well before.

PS: What might blow the minds of many US Americans is also the option to combine, simply having a nice walk, with going to the store. You know, a bit of relaxed physical activity, seeing the the hood and doing the chores all at once.

In all seriousness, paint doesn’t enforce speed. What you need is to rebuild streets for that speed. Have a look at the Netherlands for reference. You need pretty little enforcement when streets are built for 30 km/h. Narrow, priority pumps at crossings for pedestrians, where your car seat is punch through your pelvis if you go anything faster than 30 km/h …)

That’s a crazy mentality.

The problem is not an “AI company” but Google being evil and AI making scamming so much more efficient. I had the habit of using youtube as music player in the background (with ublock of course). This has become incredibly miserable and I finall freed myself from that and rather pay qobuz a decent amount of money from now one, for much better quality and much more money actually ending up with the artists and no scam BS like the above. Oh and also active removal of AI music slop, in case it even makes it there.

But just wait for the deafening screaming of people when 30km/h limits are enacted in front of schools because that would dramatically reduce lethality of accidents, while costing car drivers maybe a few seconds of drive time, if at all. It is quite a spectacle.

If you operate that within the EU, you better know what you are doing, hope it never gets leaked, or don’t do half of what you are implying here.

In the EU VoLTE seems to work with most providers but there are issues with some providers. I think the sailfish OS forum has a compatibility list. Not sure how the situation is in the US as, this does depend on providers.

I am not, i should have made it clearer above by saying “just a fine”

If multiple (or even countless) people die because of your grave negligence (which is the most benevolent way to look at it) I don’t think the appropriate judgement is a fine.

I think the legal questions should be fairly simple. The company selling the AI service should be liable for every error made and by that I mean all the way up to the management into the CEO’s office. Of course, that will never happen but it should happen.

Sounds like part of the problem is that groceries in the US are not designed as proper full sortiment stores. By that I don’t mean being a hypermarket with 1000 flavours of yoghurt but having a broad sortiment, just like an Aldi doesn’t have all that many different products either but they do cover most of the stuff you need. In many cities you find such grocery stores that are still pretty compact on every corner. You really need to go to anything else only if you want something rather special or extraordinary.

I find it pretty strange to consider city centres to be food deserts by default but then, I guess that is the case in many cities in the US, even when they are not entirely car dependent.

One thing that is a key difference in transit oriented places, other than the stores I was talking about above is that shopping habbits are widly different. Shopping more often but buying less. This has pros and cons but as stores are more efficient (good sortiment at compact size) one does not need as long in the store and buying stuff after work means, one can have a lot fresher stuff at home, for example, fresh bread, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits …

Another aspect is drinking habits or rather infrastructure. Where I live, a lot of people don’t buy a lot of drinks, other than the occasional orange juice or and milk. Tap water is great, no need for bottled water and if you like it carbonised, something like Soda Stream is saving you a lot of schlepping.

PS: Every thought about getting an e-bike or a compact cargo e-bike? Still worlds better than wasting fuel for the car for inner urban transportation, if it is safe to ride that is.

It is really not about Europe or US. Even the US has cities and neighbourhoods that are like that. In most places however, it is illegal to build such places new and their supply is so ridiculously low that most people could not possibly afford to live in such a place, or those places, or those places are so poor and dangerous that they aren’t good places to live for other reasons.

The problem is car centric urban design. Most people don’t get it that they do not only have to drive by car because everything is so far away but everything is so far away because everyone is expected to drive by car. You can change that but it takes a lot of time and the political will to do so.

You get the mobility you build your cities for. Cites were not built for cars (most of them at least), they were transformed into car cities (which took decades). Thing is, cities can also be transformed back into transit oriented cities. Both takes time and commitment though.

The Dutch were on the same “train” to total car dependency in the 1960s. But during the oil crises in the 70s they put a hard stop to that and reversed course. Now half a century later, most of the country is designed to be attractive for multiple modes of mobility, among others cycling but also transit and yes even driving by car. The latter does not dominate everything however.

On reddit I would respond with r/woosh

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It is owned by the ad company System1 though.