1. They haven’t been found to be at fault for enough crashes to cost more than their profits
2. It seems to work well for most people
3. They have mechanical door releases, they are detailed in the owner’s manual
4. It seems to have fewer fatal accidents than human drivers, try not to mistake highly reported collisions for high rate collisions

You hear about them because every fatal crash is reported, every fire is reported. You don’t hear about the same things for other brands. A kid killed himself near my place driving his father’s V8 car, it didn’t even make the local news because teenage boys killing themselves in cars by driving recklessly is hardly rare.

Tesla model 3 does have mechanical door release mechanisms (at least for the front doors

It’s in the door pocket, under the rubber liner at the bottom of the pocket

People really need to read the owners manual for their cars, but also companies that make innovative changes to basic safety systems like door handles should make some effort to inform their customers how to bypass those things

Other things tesla fails to tell their customers, aside from in the owner’s manual, include that pressing and holding the park button activates emergency braking

The article was wrong that the electronic door latching prevents people outside helping those trapped in the car, the outside handle are mechanical, they will work unless the door is locked

I have definitely heard of children being killed by a car while waiting for a bus in a bus shelter several metres away from the road

I have read about cars smashing through walls of houses

I have read about a car used to kill the children of the driver in a lake well away from the road

Cars are not guaranteed to be on roads when they are killing people

The op image uses speeds much slower than that. The top speed in op is 60km/h which is about 35mph

SMAE: Shake My Arse Even, for when SMH just isn’t quite right

Australia, so 2m, but yeah

We were not allowed out except for a few exceptions, one of which was an hour a day of outdoor exercise

I would commute by bike to my preferred exercise location an hour away, ride for exercise for an hour, then commute by bike home again

2021 was a cyclist’s dream. Clean air and no cars

Indeed, but it’s another necessary step. Nothing is as simple as it seems. You probably need the wood plantation anyway for fuel

America is not the only car centric culture. What is up with all the ‘America bad’ bullshit on Lemmy lately?

Also, I literally live next to a fully separated bike lane in an oil state…

Because unlike other car centric places, the US federal government is actively opposed to any improvement in bicycle or walking infrastructure, though some states are willing to defy the federal government

Add to that how the US federal government is opposed to renewable energy, opposed to protection of the environment, opposed to protection of threatened species, opposed to immigration, opposed to past immigration, opposed to assigned at birth gender nonconformity, opposed to non reproductive sexual preferences, opposed to education — especially of women

Your oil state is probably more responsive to people’s desire to ride a bike without being killed than the US, and yours is an oil state.

Canberra (the city, not the federal government) has been going pretty hard on urban infill for a while now, if we manage to get high enough population density then suburbs can become towns

Now we just need to convince Australians to have babies at better than replacement rate; I don’t think it’s possible to densify in a declining population

First learn to make your own sodium hydroxide. You can’t get away from dependence on others, everything is more complex than it looks

Dense population attracts crime, dense population allows for more walking and cycling infrastructure. The coincidence of those two facts makes people think that walking and cycling infrastructure causes an increase in crime. Those people are confusing correlation and causation

Or choosing a width and windiness to achieve desired speeds, fill the reclaimed space with bike lanes and parking or bus stops or gardens or playgrounds in the widest parts

I feel like if you can’t see them in time you’re going too fast

The EV kit company I was looking at years ago stopped being a kit company and became Tesla :(

There’s always plugshare - charge at a random person’s house

One of the best things about recumbents is I’d go right under it

Canberra, Australia has ok bike to the airport. No bike parking at the airport, so if you’re seeing someone off you’re probably locking it to a sign or a fence. You’re in with cars for the last kilometre though as the airport doesn’t consider bikes, though the city does

And some serious car brain