RiderExMachina

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You have me confused for someone else. Lemmy is a big place with multiple users, someone else said that it's both.

But sure, here you go:

Pedestrian fatalities are correlated with two major factors: speed and vehicle size. In North America, streets are designed to make driving easier and faster: lanes are made wider, and obstacles are removed to reduce visual clutter. This results in everything in NA looking flat and being spread out.

Vehicle sizes are goibg up because of the "size wars": the EPA made limits on fuel emissions barring vehicle size, so auto manufacturers decided to make larger vehicles to get around the limitations. Consumers wanted bigger, "safer" vehicles to make it more likely to survive a crash, so there's become an arms race for vehicle size. As these vehicles get bigger, pedestrians become harder to see, and if a pedestrian is hit, the grill is so high, the pedesteian will be thrown under the vehicle as opposed to over it.

As North America grows, we expand into suburbs, which are residential only, requiring residents to commute into the city to get groceries or go to work. More driving means more km driven.

And if you want my sources, here are a few to get you started:

Pedestrian deaths all-time high - https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car

And https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7317a1.htm

Vehicle size: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/more-and-more-american-pedestrians-are-dying-because-larger-vehicles-incorporating-data-safety-regulations-can-help

And https://www.cdc.gov/pedestrian-bike-safety/about/pedestrian-safety.html

And https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33147075/

Lane width and speeding correlation: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/review_lane_width_and_speed_parsons.pdf

And https://narrowlanes.americanhealth.jhu.edu/report/JHU-2023-Narrowing-Travel-Lanes-Report.pdf

I hope these provide the answers you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The only thing I know as someone not in the business is that many of the experts are saying larger vehicles are nearly half of all fatalities.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212737005/cars-trucks-pedestrian-deaths-increase-crash-data

Do note that these are numbers for the US, and may not correspond with other countries.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

Were already at an all-time high of vehicle related deaths. We'd actually probably see a decrease in fatalities if we made cars smaller.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I think they store the data about the files in a database, but the files are in a folder structure.

Doesn't make sense to have data that could be a few gigabytes in a database, or maybe that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

As a kid I didn't understand hermits.

Now that I'm an adult, I'm jealous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I personally don't use Photoshop but was using it as an example. You could fill in the blank with other tools like AutoCAD, MS Office, QuickBooks/Quicken, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (13 children)

I think there are two major hurdles keeping Linux adoption back (besides the obvious installation bit). The first is that our backwards compatibility is terrible. It is easier to get old versions of Windows software to run in Wine than it is to get some old Linux software to run natively.

If something like Photoshop did finally release a Linux version, even if they only did one release to make 2% of people happy, it likely wouldn't be able to run natively after 5 years.

The second is a good graphical toolkit. Yes, GTK and Qt exist, but neither are as simple as WinForms or SwiftUI/Aqua.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think my favorite comment from that thread was "It's perfect for organizing people's /tmp folder" from outofpaper

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It tried, but it missed some good context

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This might be controversial, but the new Denis Villeneuve movies are much better than the book. Maybe watch the movies and read the book or trawl the wiki after for more context.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Well, you know the old adage: "Good artists copy, great artists steal"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I was wondering why they were going to continue with such a dangerous mission after all the bad press Boeing has been getting lately. Sunk cost fallacy, maybe?

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