While cycling, you'll be passed by aggressive drivers, and catch up with them at the next traffic light.
@BadByte
Жыл бұрын
On my commute there is an uphill stretch with 4 traffic lights, unless they get a lucky break with 2 or more green lights I am pretty much keeping up with them on my 3 speed bike as I come up to the same red light as they are.
@michaeloreilly657
Жыл бұрын
Unless the lights are synchronized for traffic, where cyclists get stopped at almost all of them.
@wiesejay
Жыл бұрын
Happened to me last week riding a bike on Sunset through Los Feliz, lol
@chalocolina3554
Жыл бұрын
If you carry an automatic centerpunch, you can issue an aggressive driver a ticket when you catch back up.
@Skzzlemister
Жыл бұрын
I always give them a big smile when I catch them at the next light and they seethe with rage.
@WalrusThunder
Жыл бұрын
That Hoboken stat is astonishing. If anyone is familiar with the city, they'll know that there are a ton of bars, and lots of drunks walking around after dark. for not a single person to have been killed in all that time shows they are doing something really well
@brokenrecord3095
Жыл бұрын
possibly because those drunks are walking around, not driving around like in more car-centric locales
@imjustheretobeentertained
Жыл бұрын
@@brokenrecord3095 well there is NO! parking so you have to walk or uber home
@brokenrecord3095
Жыл бұрын
@@imjustheretobeentertained and that's a good thing. where I live people who want to go to the bars pile into a car and drive off to get plastered......
@CurrentlyVince
Жыл бұрын
Well now that you say that, you've got me wondering if potential fatalities were just shifted to other locations outside the small city limits. . . .
@8_bit_Geek
Жыл бұрын
it's a tiny city on the hudson river. it's the size of a NYC neighborhood and easily walkable
@xaphon89
Жыл бұрын
I've been saying for a few years now how absurd it is that the moment e-bikes and e-scooters started getting popular, every legislative body in the country had a collective mental breakdown over the supposed safety concerns, apparently oblivious to the irony that people are killed by cars every single day. Many manufacturers do put speed governors in their cars, but they're usually limited to well over 100 mph, or even over 150 mph, speeds that are extremely difficult to attain on any public road even with serious effort, and much faster than the fastest posted speed limit anywhere in North America.
@johnroutledge9220
Жыл бұрын
The logic is that e-scooters don't come with seat belts or airbags, and cars do. Cars also come with a telephone directory size book of safety rules manufactures have to follow, and e scooters don't. You can argue that makes them just like bikes, but traditionally bikes don't spontaneously catch fire because of a soldering defect. It was in many ways an over reaction, but it was also not completely without merit.
@xaphon89
Жыл бұрын
@@johnroutledge9220 Yeah but they didn't apply the same reasoning to motorcycles so it's all bullshit.
@katiem.3109
Жыл бұрын
@@johnroutledge9220 You do realize that cellphones, computers, and other consumer electronics also sometimes catch fire due to manufacturing defects, right? Indeed, these devices all use the exact same type of battery (lithium ion). Talking about increasing consumer safety regulations on their manufacture is reasonable, but wanting to ban them entirely is as absurd as wanting to ban all cellphones.
@mother_tucker
Жыл бұрын
Maybe they didn’t want to make the same mistake their predecessors did and just say ‘go for it’ … see how well that worked out with cars etc…
@liam3284
Жыл бұрын
Ebike cuts out at 25kph, and honestly it works very well. Only need the assistance for going up steep inclines, where I am likely to be well under 25kph. Otherwise, I turn it off to preserve battery. If cars were goverened to 20, I could keep up wiith them on a bicycle.
@sirrebral
Жыл бұрын
I'm reminded of a fatality last week that made the national news...a man was killed while returning to his car after helping some ducks across the road in Rocklin, CA, a suburban bedroom community outside of Sacramento. The location (Stanford Ranch Road and Park Drive) is an intersection of two stroads where the design fails to discourage drivers from slowing down.
@kb_100
Жыл бұрын
I think he was struck by a teenager in a full sized pickup truck. If it had been a Honda Civic he might have survived.
@InventorZahran
Жыл бұрын
He was a noble gentleman, sacrificing his life to ensure those ducks' safety!
@InventorZahran
Жыл бұрын
But seriously, we need to make our streets and roads safe enough that nobody (human or avian) has to worry about getting killed while crossing them.
@brianmiller5444
Жыл бұрын
@@kb_100because that teen in Stanford Ranch was obviously a farmer carrying a load of feed for the cattle on his family farm. Americans NEED 6,000 pound lifted trucks.
@kb_100
Жыл бұрын
@@brianmiller5444 it's important to drive around in 6000 lbs of steel all year in case you suddenly feel the urge to build a deck and need to buy lumber immediately.
@andriypredmyrskyy7791
Жыл бұрын
"everyone I've ever met is an above average driver" love it
@barryrobbins7694
Жыл бұрын
The irony is that more infrastructure related to walking, bicycling, and mass transit will lead to safer streets. It is less expensive overall, results in fewer cars on the streets, and improves the driving experience for those that need to drive.
@BobbyT.
Жыл бұрын
Exactly not sure why people who primarily drive are so against public transit it helps everyone out.
@ericandbeethoven
Жыл бұрын
@@BobbyT. It increases crime by allowing the criminals to travel to your home. #sarcasm
@Skip6235
Жыл бұрын
@@BobbyT.I literally got in an argument with someone the other day and they came right out and said “I like things the way they are. I don’t want it to change” Complacency is a hell of a drug
@AbsolutePixelMaster
Жыл бұрын
This is what pains me the most, it is literally a win without compromises for everyone. This should be a no-brainer policy win, but thanks to decades of propaganda and cultural normalization, we have to wade through a sea of miss-information and the miss-informed just to make any little progress we can.
@barryrobbins7694
Жыл бұрын
@@ericandbeethoven There are police on bicycles too.
@danielkelly2210
Жыл бұрын
All counterarguments: “But what about muh car and muh need for speed?”
@user-hm5zb1qn6g
2 ай бұрын
cry harder.
@RusselCS
Жыл бұрын
i've been a "man i wish public transit was better" guy ever since i got in my first car accident and realized i am definitively not an "above average driver" 🙂
@ONEIL311
Жыл бұрын
I've wrecked 3 cars my man you just gotta get back on the horse and ride. Wise men are made by poor decision
@questioner1596
Жыл бұрын
There seems to also be a critical mass needed for quantity of non-4 wheel traffic before drivers are in the habit of checking. I live in rural Canada along a 2 lane 50 km/h (30 mph) highway and as one of the few who drives a non-F150 (motorcycle, bicycle, subcompact car) I often have people pulling out in front of me as if I'm invisible.
@theold1.
Жыл бұрын
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@prun8893
Жыл бұрын
Everyone else drives an F-150.........one person drives a smaller vehicle. But it's everyone else's fault that the one person feels unsafe. That's idiotic progressive self-centred thinking, right there.
@mattj2619
Жыл бұрын
Two things not mentioned about how just lowering the speed limit without infrastructure changes helps. First a lot of people will only drive a certain amount over the limit, usually 10. So dropping it to 20 will get the average driver to go only 30. Second in the US at least the speed of a road dictates what types of changes you can make to it. So lowering it allows you to make incremental design changes that will slow people down. Yes you could just redesign the whole road and change the speed limit at the same time but as was already noted that's expensive.
@sirrebral
Жыл бұрын
I'm skeptical of the first claim. We have data-collection methods that objectively report how fast people drive at a given location, which is far more credible than some subjective proxy that is prone to reporting bias (we are likely to THINK that we are only doing 10 MPH over the speed limit when, in reality, we may be traveling faster). Practical solutions should be based in science and observable data; wishful thinking...such as lowering speed limits without doing anything else...is how we kick the proverbial can down the (st)road to become the next generation's problem.
@DuncanAdkins
Жыл бұрын
I would challenge how much of an effect that would truly have beyond a certain threshold- for example, lowering a speed limit from 45 to 35 might get a large enough portion of drivers to slow down to have an effect, but if you took a 6 lane stroad and set the speed limit from 45 to 20, I would wager that a majority of people would drive the speed they felt 'comfortable' driving, and would only adjust speeds if there was a visible cop (and then speed up again right afterwards). I think that this is a problem that is fundamentally intersectional (hah)- you can try to attack it from one angle, but unless you can adjust things in concert with one another, you're just putting lipstick on a pig. A speed limit adjustment, plus easily deployable traffic calming (jersey barriers, painted street parking), plus things to discourage driving THROUGH an area vs around it (congestion pricing, changing roads to be one way, speed tables) should produce large effects. And I think that the more small scale interventions you can do and show that the sky isn't falling just cause you have to take a roundabout way to your destination, the easier it will be to implement the expensive and truly difficult things like street redesigns, pedestrianization, and things that make it harder to drive.
@josephfisher426
Жыл бұрын
@@sirrebral IMO +10 is a fair approximation of observed behavior, when the road design is consistent with the speed. I agree that it's not going to work on multilane roads without a lot of enforcement. I took the comment as referring to traffic-calming devices, especially central islands and elevated crosswalks/intersections, which designers tend to not want to permit until the road gets down to the neighborhood level, even though they can be safely used at thru-traffic speeds.
@mf--
Жыл бұрын
@@josephfisher426 enforcememt is the only way to get people to at least approach 5 over in these low speed areas.
@brianmiller5444
Жыл бұрын
@@mf--there will never be enough enforcement, which is expensive and requires more manpower than many resource and personnel constrained police departments have these days. Plus, increased contact with police leads to other, often dangerous results. Especially when there is racial bias, which there almost always is.
@eechauch5522
Жыл бұрын
There’s a big discussion going on in Germany at the moment concerning the topic of lower speed limits. Federal law currently states city speed limit is 50 kph (~35mph), unless there are a few specific reasons to have a lower one (usually 30). A growing number of cities want to be able to set the limit to 30 (~20 mph) wherever they see fit. Because currently they are often forced to post a higher speed limit, even if the city and residents agree on lowering it. Some want to go further and set the base limit for their city to 30 and post 50 where it’s permitted (currently the speed limit is 50, if not otherwise postet).
@jjandorliadul
Жыл бұрын
I loved Manhattan Transfer. Jimmy Herf and Congo Jake were very memorable figures.
@gjits5307
Жыл бұрын
I think the "muh freedom" reaction often comes from a place of insecurity: "are you saying I'm too stupid to drive safely?" Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
@Noam-Bahar
Жыл бұрын
Either that, or the utter ignorance and blindness to alternative transit methods replacing cars as the default.
@xandercruz900
Жыл бұрын
Yeah! Sane people demand limits! It keeps us safe and makes the world a better place!
@fionafiona1146
Жыл бұрын
Most drivers believe to be better than average
@gjits5307
Жыл бұрын
@@fionafiona1146 exactly, and half of them are wrong.
@fionafiona1146
Жыл бұрын
@@gjits5307 regular retesting or ongoing driver training could help. Living in a nation where everyone getting a licence needs to have first aid training (8 hours) is preferable to not doing so but data suggests utility of that reduces after 2 and 5 years. I hope to see change on the subject
@GojiMet86
Жыл бұрын
30 mph in a big SUV or F-150 hits different than 30 mph in a Compact car......literally.
@gameonyolo1
Жыл бұрын
2024 we get different speed limits for different cars. A 3 series even if it's going 40 when a truck is going 30 can stop faster, see earlier, and hit lighter.
@linuxman7777
Жыл бұрын
We have had freight trains and much larger vehicles than SUVs for over a century, and we knew how to keep pedestrians safe from them. You gotta keep them separated
@Dysiode
Жыл бұрын
@@linuxman7777 Agreed, let's keep all the SUVs in a camp outside of the city
@mjc0961
Жыл бұрын
Sedan/compact car design: slow and angled so hitting a person causes them to fall over onto the hood Truck & SUV (AKA truck with back hatch instead of bed) design: big flat surface to push a person down and underneath the car Whhhyyyyy is this still legal, why aren't you required to have a higher tier of license to drive one of these stupid things?
@woxyroxme
Жыл бұрын
It’s usually the poorly educated low brow people who drive pick up trucks and big SUVs. There is a channel on KZitem called notjustbikes where he points out that the car companies admitted to targeting “assholes” to sell big vehicles to
@chrism3784
Жыл бұрын
11:00 nailed it. Literally everyone that drives, me included, care more about not getting a ticket then safety. I can assure you of this because I bought a white crown vic 14 years ago and had for a year. I never seen such good driving in my life driving around a decommissioned cop car.
@doorknob60
Жыл бұрын
In the short term, there may be some technology hurdles in implementing speed governors. I've driven in cars that attempt to read the speed limit signs with cameras and show them next to your spedometer, and I've seen how apps like Google Maps attempt to show you the speed limit of the road you're driving on. I would say either of these solutions only have maybe an 80-90% accuracy. Especially since there is a lot of grey area you might need to account for. Like, you just turned off a 30 MPH street onto a highway on-ramp and you need to speed up to 65. In the former example, the car won't think the speed limit is changed until after you merge onto the highway and pass another speed limit sign. Lots of edge cases that might make hard cap governing challenging to implement well. As much as I don't love them (even though I rarely speed in cities), speed camera might be a better solution. Focus them on stroads and other urban/suburban areas where they're most needed. The better next step is to redesign the streets/stroads to encourage lower speeds though. Including stuff like more/better pedestrian crossings, increased visibility, all that good stuff. Even simply narrowing the lanes can do a lot. It can be expensive and take time though to do it well, which is why cameras could be an interim solution. I personally am not in favor of them in environments like freeways though. Keep people slow in the city, but fast on true highways is okay with me.
@davidanderson5310
Жыл бұрын
Vision Zero came to my city a few years ago, and ironically, I hated it a lot more when I was just a pedestrian & public transit user. I really resented no longer being allowed to cross at uncontrolled intersections when it was safe, having instead to push a beg button and wait for a light to permit it. However, when I got a car, I Vision Zero didn't bother me any more, because the "pedestrian safety" measures are so car-centric, I think they actually make car traffic flow more smoothly.
@markw.schumann297
Жыл бұрын
Cleveland decided in 2018 to have a "vision zero" policy and we've had a _lot_ of meetings. Yup. Many many meetings. And finally we got consultants to write an Action Plan last August. So good, now there's an Action Plan. The lack of urgency though.
@ericwright8592
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see something examining whether one way streets or two way streets are safer for cyclists and pedestrians. My city wants to change most of the one way streets to two way to ease driver frustration, but I feel like this will be much less safe for pedestrians and cyclists dealing with cars coming from all directions. I feel safer biking on one way streets. The flow of traffic is predictable, cars can pass me easily if they want. If they become two way, that won't work well.
@brokenrecord3095
Жыл бұрын
i prefer biking on 1 way streets as well, although I usually go the wrong way. That way cars should always approach me from ahead, where I can see them with plenty of time for evasive maneuvers, should that be necessary
@tristanridley1601
Жыл бұрын
The downside to current one-way streets for safety is that it's simpler for drivers, which leads to higher speed and less attention. One way streets need to work even harder to force drivers to be alert and safe.
@ericwright8592
Жыл бұрын
I particularly don't like 2 way streets with only one lane in each direction, add in parked cars on the sides and cyclists have absolutely nowhere to go. And cars stuck behind you get extra frustrated because they can't pass you at all.
@keriezy
Жыл бұрын
I run against a lot of resistance from people when I mention that speed limits are too high. They argue that they're going somewhere. And I counter with you'll get there going 25mph or 45mph only at the first speed you and everyone else will get there alive. They think _their_ time is more valuable than others'. Don't get me started on how they react when I say we need bendy roads.
@knutthompson7879
Жыл бұрын
And then point out how much faster it would be if public transportation were prioritized and people weren't stuck motionless in traffic a large fraction of the time. That is quite a conversation ender.
@electric7487
Жыл бұрын
It's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned.
@keriezy
Жыл бұрын
@@knutthompson7879 or parking!
@runswithraptors
Жыл бұрын
@@knutthompson7879 I had a related thought recently. If the traffic systems you design have huge numbers of cars sitting at multiple intersections for minutes at a time you have failed at making a decent transportation system.
@JohnFromAccounting
Жыл бұрын
In my area, the traffic is so bad that if you can hit the speed limit, you're a very lucky driver.
@BeatsByYari
Жыл бұрын
The municipality of Amsterdam is going to lower most speed limits on major inner city roads to 20 mph later this year, which seems totally fair as you can’t even do half that in average speed during the day, plus it’s way safer.
@xouxoful
Жыл бұрын
I’m shocked the truck speed isn’t enforced in the US. Here in France, truck speed limit is REALLY respected. You can be sure all semi on the freeway are driving at 90km/h no more, no less. They have a tachymeter memorizing the truck speeds on a period (hours or days?) and can be controlled at any time by the cops. Very effective
@albertrodriguez3429
Жыл бұрын
You had me at “Groan”
@MrTwostring
Жыл бұрын
Disappointed that the video didn't cover the topic raised on the thumbnail: "Is 20 plenty." I drive a street legal electric buggy (NEV/LSV GEM car) - it's mostly a recreational vehicle, but I occasionally use it as practical transportation. It has a top speed of around 25 mph. (Faster downhill.) I'm amazed that when driving within the city limits of Rochester NY, how adequate this speed feels and how I usually have no trouble keeping up with traffic.
@kaitlyn__L
Жыл бұрын
That 85th percentile rule is maddening. “You don’t want to make 80-90% of the drivers criminals!” Well, if you want speed limits to ACTUALLY shape behaviour you would. In the UK when they mandated seatbelts a lot of people got tickets the very day it was instituted. When they reduced rural roads from 40 to 30 for pedestrian safety lots of people got tickets because they hadn’t read the signage in decades. Same for when it got reduced again to 20.
@mattvaandering
Жыл бұрын
At a recent town hall meeting I attended addressing speeding in my neighborhood, almost everyone seemed to think the solution was more policing...
@een_schildpad
Жыл бұрын
I actually asked some of my city officials recently what we can do to address speeding, the police chief said "hire more patrol officers" but admitted they would need easy more than they have budget for. I asked about speed cameras and they just said they aren't planning on using them. No luck either change road design, in fact they have a "modernization" effort underway which pretty much just means widening roads and adding lanes 😢
@manzell
Жыл бұрын
in NYC we tried to collect data from driver's via their OBD-2 (data) port to measure hard breaking events to identify high-injury nodes ahead of time. For whatever reason, it was decided that this needed to be paired with rewards via a driver's insurance company and the auto-insurance regulations completely sank the project.
@mjc0961
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember my insurance company trying to push one of those data collectors on me. Big button promising lower rates and whatnot for using it. I click the button to learn more. And then it's like "lol ack-shully we don't have any discounts but you can still install it if you'd like" So obviously I didn't install it.
@simsley5501
Жыл бұрын
As a Hobokenite, please come to Hoboken! That would be amazing! Tbh we still have a lot of issues with prioritizing pedestrians, cyclists, and traffic safety, especially wrt double parking in paint bike lanes (gutters), but I love that we’re doing relatively well otherwise!
@Dysiode
Жыл бұрын
I noticed that even just in the streetview images! Granted, I'll give delivery trucks a pass since where else are they supposed to go? I also think there needs to be more space dedicated to pickup/dropoff to avoid that sort of thing. On the 3-lane street outside a friend's house in Portland the right-lane often has multiple cars with their hazards on for this reason, in addition to a layer of parking on the street
@krone5
Жыл бұрын
I thought of having a speed limit for cars, and a lower limit for SUVs, and trucks. maybe that would make cars more popular.
@Szergej33
Жыл бұрын
12:35 Love the shot from Valenia. I got inspired by your video and visited the city this weekend. It was awesome and incredibly pedestrian/bike friendly. Thanks and love the videos
@sc100ott
Жыл бұрын
I find it ironic that the mid-video ad inserted by KZitem (at least in my feed) was for BMW 😂
@phil5980
4 ай бұрын
Just came to America from Switzerland and I'm freaking out on the roads here.. The rules don't apply, 4 way stops are treated like random stop and goes. People are mad at me for using my right of way and stopping at stop signs. Solide lines don't matter, I would lose my permit for crossing one back home... I saw your video on pickup trucks.. I must say that I enjoyed renting a huge truck and kicking up dust in the middle of nowhere on gravel roads with a beer in hand. Edit: + rubber banding.. Going from very fast to slow over and over. This is very addictive I get caught up in it without noticing 😅
@Burt1038
Жыл бұрын
I admit when I'm driving down a stroad at 45 mph and need to turn right and I have a green light pedestrians are usually the last thing on my mind. Granted there are very few of them where I live but that's part of the problem: nobody expects them and sure enough there are pedestrian accidents fairly regularly. Just last week a man on a bicycle got hit and run by a pickup making an unprotected left turn on a green light. Not sure he made it but when the ambulance arrived he wasn't moving...
@hansc8433
Жыл бұрын
Where I live, the penalty for killing a pedestrian with a car is usually a couple of years (up to 7 years) in jail. Last year, only 50 pedestrians were killed by a car (driver), and just shy of 200 cyclists. That is on a total of roughly 18 million people. Extrapolated to the population of the US, that would mean approximately 1000 pedestrians. On the other hand, more people in jail is probably not what the US needs. The issue with different types of road users is that they should not mix, unless they are on a level playing field. This means that pedestrians should not have to cross stroads, and cars should be enforced to drive at pedestrian speed in city centers. This works fine in cities that actually have a walkable centre, but in the US these cities don’t really exist (apart from the usual suspects).
@Notimp0rtant523
Жыл бұрын
I’m in Germany right now. Didn’t need to come here to know how valuable public transit is. But there is exactly one reason why speed governors should not be in vehicles. I want you to follow me on this for one second. You’re at home, and your small child - or fully grown adult relative for that matter - slips and falls, knocks over a glass, and cuts themselves. They are bleeding BAD, and it is not stopping. You have two options: speed to the hospital which takes you five minutes, or wait on an ambulance which takes eight minutes (that is the actual US average). Your relative is bleeding so badly that you genuinely think three minutes could be the difference. You grab your kid, grab your keys, and GO. Now I want you to picture that as you are rushing to get your dying child to the hospital, some asshole decides to swerve back and forth in front of you, keeping you from passing them, keeping you from breaking any road rules. It takes you seven minutes to get to the hospital instead of five. Your child - your beautiful, sweet child, only ten minutes ago playing, only three minutes ago talking to you - is dead on arrival. I want you to imagine how you would feel about that asshole while your child lay dead in your passenger seat. That asshole, is the speed governor. I will never advocate for any rule being blanket broken by society on a regular basis; however, if you actually try to tell me that you would follow every single road rule with your dying child/spouse/even just a random stranger in your vehicle, you are lying or you are legitimately unprepared for the realities of planet Earth; you can decide. When a life is on the line, you BETTER be willing to do ANYTHING to save it. That means going 45 in a 25. That means running red lights when it’s all clear. After all, rules don’t exist for smart people; rules exist for dumb people. You’re smart enough to know what you are capable of. It is a matter of fact - indisputable, undeniable FACT - that you can strictly limit the speed at which cars travel in cities without needing to install speed governors. Germany is doing it right now. You can go 300kph in Germany, but through the city you’re lucky to hit 30kph. That is because of road design and traffic segregation, NOT mechanical speed governors. All I’m saying is, if you want speed governors, you need to put an ambulance station literally on every single corner of every single city in the United States FIRST. Now tell me, what do you think is the smarter investment of resources? Nothing in life is black and white. But within the grey, there is the determination of life and death.
@barryrobbins7694
Жыл бұрын
A cold statistical analysis suggests that it is not significant compared to the lives that might be saved by lowering everyday traffic speeds.
@crash.override
Жыл бұрын
@@barryrobbins7694 In politics, pathos frequently beats logic 😕 And your average human voter is bad at comparing risks, due to cognitive biases.
@enjoyslearningandtravel7957
Жыл бұрын
If your child is bleeding because of glass, when are you just take a turn the counter bandage and stop the bleeding instead of spending that time speeding
@at0mly
Жыл бұрын
Gotta love the Boulder Highway B-roll when you're talking about how awful and dangerous stroads are.
@jstnrgrs
Жыл бұрын
Driving faster doesnt get you there quicker. It only mean youll wait longer at the next light (or even if you squeak by that light, then the one after it). When driving, ive found adaptive cruise control to be a great way to keep myself from drivong too fast. (Not sure how to get enough other to do that though.)
@barryrobbins7694
Жыл бұрын
That’s the logic of someone who left their house on time.😀
@linuxman7777
Жыл бұрын
If you are hitting lights you are on a stroad.
@benjaminburton7213
Жыл бұрын
Have you considered the impacts of stop sign cameras? They might allow speed freaks to keep their illusion of “freedom” while helping keep the streets safe. Adding a governor to every car seems like an expensive and insurmountable task. Camera systems have their own set of issues but might be a viable compromise.
@nebulaaah
Жыл бұрын
I'm truly shocked by the number of road deaths in the US (40-50,000 per year), compared to UK (1,558 in 2021). For context, US population is 332 mil compared to 67.3 mil in the UK.
@loljewlol
Жыл бұрын
You should do a video about rail corridor and density or population along it. A corridor is pretty much a land version of a river, and like river many a city popped along it. It shown to happen to many Tokyo satellite cities once communter/regional rail were constructed,. One note is the planned California hsr; if completed both phase 1 and 2, it will connect almost 90% of the population.
@TimothyWhiteheadzm
Жыл бұрын
I try to stick to speed limits and would use a speed governor if it existed and reliably applied speed limits based on location. I believe tools like Google maps do not have such features to warn you when you go over the limit because they were patented by garmin or something like that. Again, I would use a warner if it was reasonably priced. However I don't think this will fix the US strode problem. The problem with strodes is they are there to carry cars at a relatively fast speed but don't have the type of separation from people that highways have. If you slow down the drivers then the purpose of the stroad will be distrupted and you will need to do some significant redesign anyway. The real issue is they are designed to be in between a street and a road and you really do have to choose one or the other if you want pedestrian safety ie slow street with pedestrians or fast highway with no pedestrians. A speed governor would make them slow streets so might as well redesign the streets if slow streets if what you want in that location.
@stevemiller7949
Жыл бұрын
One of your best segments. The irony is much appreciated.🙂💯
@linuxman7777
Жыл бұрын
The safest speeds to travel are below 10mph and over 60mph. Trains, Planes, and cars on Highways/Busses are the safest ways to get from Point A to Point B. Bike Paths and Sidewalks and town streets are also incredibly safe because traffic is slow enough, that it can all mix. Strong Towns says it best that we get the best at very low speeds and very high speeds, the middle speed stroads are the deadliest. We need to have pedestrians separated from fast cars in the same way we keep them away from Railroads, and Airports. I can't just walk into the railroad or shinkansen tracks, and I should not walk near a stroad.
@rangersmith4652
Жыл бұрын
As a cyclist, I'd love to see the urban focus shift away from car centrism, but I will not demonize the motor vehicle as so many cycling advocates do. Cars do not kill. Bad driving kills. Carelessness, on everyone's part, kills. A key reason so many people are killed in cars and by cars is that it's way too easy for motorists in the US to get and maintain an operator's license--the states' standards are simply too low. Penalties for bad driving and unauthorized driving are way too soft. There are speed-mitigating measures we can take, and all the truly effective ones are engineering and design changes, not rule changes. Physically limiting motor vehicle speeds has been around a long time; e.g., most countries in Europe mandate limiters on over-the-road trucks. But in the US, at least, the auto industry lobby makes sure that legislators' palms are sufficiently greased to preclude speed-limiting and/or acceleration rate limiting technology from ever becoming a thing on private cars and trucks. The same lobby fights against any legislative initiative that would do anything to make driving in our cities less attractive. Get rid of that lobbying force, and the problems will quickly be solvable.
@user-xsn5ozskwg
Жыл бұрын
The "cars don't kill people, people kill people" argument has always been flimsy because if you remove cars from the equation there's not suddenly going to be something else that fills the murder void. I agree with everything else you said but it's undeniable cars, as an independently owned and operated vehicle, are going to kill people much more than anything else on the road simply by design, especially as they get bigger and heavier.
@rangersmith4652
Жыл бұрын
@@user-xsn5ozskwg But cars operate with drivers, not by themselves. And "murder" is very rare with motor vehicles. Most deaths are by accident. Further, if you adhere to the bigger and heavier rule for causing deaths, then commercial trucks would be the major killers, not cars. Who's going to advocate for removing those trucks from the roads? From some areas within cities, maybe. But even then, how will you get Twinkies to the Piggly Wiggly without trucks?
@dreimer2112
Жыл бұрын
Several thoughts, some only peripherally related to this video: I support speed governors in principal, but I do worry about unintended consequences. Take the idea of risk homeostasis for example. If a driver is comfortable at the risk level of driving 25% over the limit, and they are now forced to drive at the limit, what will they fill that risk tolerance with? Instagramming? Filming Tiktoks? I've come to the conclusion that it is not street width/infrastructure that slows drivers, but chaos. I've got lots of examples of drivers not slowing at all on narrow roadways (Patullo Bridge in Metro Vancouver, I'm looking at you), but all you have to do is drive the 101 through towns in Oregon in the summer to see people driving slowly on freeway-width lanes with large shoulders because of the presence of huge numbers of pedestrians on said shoulders. The visual chaos, and the possibility of a tourist running across the road at any time, do wonders to slow drivers. For the past several years I've cycled more than I've driven, and it has completely re-calibrated my sense of speed when I'm driving. I find it very easy to stay within the limit now where before I would chafe to drive at the limit.
@logicalfundy
Жыл бұрын
Well, part of the problem is that you can't really go 20 mph on a highway. So you can't really limit the governor to 20, you need to limit it to highway speeds so the vehicle is usable on highways. Which won't really solve the problem of in-city speeding at all.
@davestvwatching2408
Жыл бұрын
My local city is contemplating reducing a 3 lane one way road (in both directions but separate) into a 2 lane plus bike/sidewalk/parking space. Hopefully that will allow for businesses and residences on those roads.
@rosskgilmour
Жыл бұрын
Its unfair to the government agencies and programs that work on road safety to say road safety hasn't improved. Since 1973 road deaths per 100,000 have fallen from 25.5 to 12.81 in 2021. (by vehicle miles traveled the improvement is even bigger) It’s still too many but to say road safety hasn’t improved over time is misleading at best
@davidhilton1054
5 ай бұрын
When I was a wee lad, I noticed the 120mph speedometer on the family car. I asked my dad why anyone would ever need to go so fast. His answer must have been unconvincing because I don't remember what he said, but I do remember aconcluding that is was needed in case I ever got into a high speed chase like I saw in the movies. Ah the mind of a child
@dahemac
Жыл бұрын
Great video, and indeed we are on the same side of this in principal. We need to redesign our urban environments to be walkable. We need to pedestrianize and intensify density. We need to build transit infrastructure. And we need to get rid of stroads. On the other hand reposting roads designed for 80 kmph as 60 or 50 or 40 is not a real solution. In the category of changing roads signed 40 mph to 20 mph without diverting drivers onto foot, or bikes or transit, what you have done there, if you enforce it, is double everyone’s trip time. Every vehicle on the road for twice as long. So, twice as many vehicles on the road at any given time. So twice the congestion and twice the danger. Moreover when Ontario introduced photo-radar to its 400-series highways back in the ’90s it was a catastrophe. The highways are designed for speeds greater than 120 kmph, the traffic generally moves at 110-120 kmph. Until every fifth vehicle is suddenly slamming on their brakes because they fear the blinding flash of a radar-van-camera. During this period the surges and sudden slowing of accordion-like congestion was extremely hazardous. The QEW Toronto-bound from St Catharines to Hamilton was a lunging parking lot even in relatively light traffic. There were, admittedly relatively minor, collisions all along that route all the time. Then photo-radar was scrapped, and boom, overnight the traffic congestion cleared and the highway became suddenly much safer. Of course we need to reimagine our cities and transit to be safer. But the problem with the focus on speeding is that municipalities and regions embark on, and sell these “solutions” as an alternative to making the very real infrastructure and urban cultural changes that are necessary moving forward. And just giving out more speeding tickets on an arterial road entirely designed for 80 kmph and signed 40 seems like action, but is really just a diversion. Durham Region sometimes seems single-mindedly focused on lower speed limits and now automated speed enforcement, handing out tickets and collecting fines. “Look at us!” they scream on social media, “We are the new urbanist utopia of punishing speeders in the name of safety.” While, at the same time, the region is engaged in a campaign of unprecedented car-centric urban sprawl that intends to more than double the urban population in two decades. “In May 2022, regional councillors voted in favour of a plan [by developers] to open up more than 9,000 acres of rural land to” 75% low density urban sprawl. But everything is fine on the urban planning front, because they have lowered posted speed limits and put in cameras to tax drivers who have no transit alternatives.
@biteursknbiteurskn
Жыл бұрын
You're not doubling EVERYONEs trip time, just car drivers, and yeah good they deserve to be punished
@dahemac
Жыл бұрын
@@biteursknbiteurskn It is perhaps not brilliant to think of punishment of the undeserving as a virtuous thing.
@biteursknbiteurskn
Жыл бұрын
@@dahemac Of course, but sadly the child murderers are very, very deserving of punishment. MUCH harsher than a lil delay if im being honest
@dahemac
Жыл бұрын
@@biteursknbiteurskn “child murderers‽” are you ok?
@biteursknbiteurskn
Жыл бұрын
@@dahemac Stop der kindermoord!
@colormedubious4747
Жыл бұрын
Anyone who has ever watched a dash cam compilation on KZitem knows that the vast majority of people drive TOO DAMNED FAST for the road conditions the vast majority of the time. Don't be in such a hurry to get to the scene of the crash! That being said, I'd like to take a moment to play the role of Devil's advocate and point out that, in recent years, the free market has done far more to enhance driving safety than all government efforts combined. My last Honda came (standard, not optional) with the Honda Sensing Suite, including adaptive cruise control (ACC) that reads speed limit signs, backup camera and proximity sensors, pre-collision detection and automatic braking, hands-free Bluetooth, and lane keeping. My daughter is a HORRIBLE driver who has hit a lot of things with cars but, since I gave her my Honda, she hasn't experienced even a single light tap. I replaced my Honda with an itty-bitty Ford pickup truck that has most of the same safety features (lacking only ACC). As the nation's vehicle fleet continues turning over during the next few years, we are probably going to see notable reductions in accidents due to these features becoming more widespread. I still think that traffic-calming measures should be implemented locally where road geometries are quite poorly designed (that may not narrow it down by much, lol). Discuss.
@stevencipriano3962
Жыл бұрын
Most of Central London's traffic speed is 20mph
@islandletters
3 ай бұрын
I only drive a few times every year and find it thus quite stressful. I love 30 km/h in urban settings, it so much more relaxed for a driver. Add to this how much safer it makes crossing for pedestrians and 30 km/h becomes a no-brainer.
@VintageToiletsRock
Жыл бұрын
I may drive like a grandma, but I know many people that drive in ways that scare me as a passenger. I think there are many good arguments for adding speed governors and I'd probably rarely notice that they would be "working" while I drive normally. I didn't like some of the comparisons at then end, as they were not similar. A speed governor doesn't make the car itself safer, it limits the driver from using the car in a reckless manor. A UL certificate means that an appliance isn't electrically faulty. You can still use it to burn down your house, but you would need to intentionally misuse it. I feel that is similar to stuck accelerator pedals in cars when the car mechanically malfunctions. Dangerous chemicals have a similar argument: plutonium can do great harm and has little benefit unless you are trained to handle it. We do allow purchasing dangerous chemicals like caustic lie and hydrochloric acid because they do have uses for average untrained people, but that doesn't mean they can't be misused. Speed governors are like a strict nanny yelling at you for driving 1 mph above the speed limit, but the problem is that you didn't hire the nanny, Uncle Sam did and many many people heavily distrust the government's intentions due to their poor track record.
@fallenshallrise
Жыл бұрын
Bad driving is the rule not the exception, and the worst part is that it's not by accident, the drivers are aware that they are doing it. Every day I see something like this morning, light turning red, one last car making a right turn before the peds step out, guy in a Tacoma, instead of braking (OMG imagine) he swerves into the oncoming lane and runs the red, I can see a phone in his right hand, he's doing this all one handed. Another "above average" driver.
@petesmith433
Жыл бұрын
Love the content, but I’m wondering if you could please make a video that covers some of the steps required to actually make progress in these areas. I appreciate your somewhat cynical comments (lol) but how can one effectively build support locally and influence/convince decision makers about things like 20 is plenty? Thanks!
@barryrobbins7694
Жыл бұрын
Advocate in your local public meetings. Do an internet search for advocacy groups in your area. CityNerd is here mostly to provide information.
@ZorenManray
Жыл бұрын
Another video with some great points, however there is a very inaccurate comparison at 12:12. The Underwriters laboratories (UL) is not a government agency or specific requirement. It's really only a testing and certification organization that is heavily involved with creating electrical safety guidelines. There are however standards still that are indeed required for electrical devices set by OSHA and the IEC that are then tested by Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) such as UL, ETL, and others. So there's a whole lot of places with big acronyms keeping us safe.
@beefstartswithaB
Жыл бұрын
BABE, you need to come over here. City Nerd dropped another vid
@mekkler
9 ай бұрын
I'm old enough to remember when the national speed limit was reduced to 55 MPH in order to save oil. It worked, too well. Oil companies lobbied, bribed, and threatened law makers to repeal it. One completely irrelevant and unimportant side effect was the accidental saving 5000-6000 inconsequential lives a year. The law was repealed.
@tommihommi1
Жыл бұрын
We need a person walking ahead, waving a red flag in front of every car that drives in areas where people live.
@InventorZahran
Жыл бұрын
Our ancestors were doing it right in 1895!
@thechappist
Жыл бұрын
These days that would just be a lot of people run over who are holding red flags.
@mitya
Жыл бұрын
He will get run over pretty quickly, by the closest car behind him .
@drpenguin57
Жыл бұрын
Denmark did something similar in 2007 but instead of red flags they used topless women.
@roberthuron9160
Жыл бұрын
In London,there was a speed limit on buses,maximum- 12 MPH! But there was none on the 🚊 trams- late at night,on the Owl runs,they could and did hit 50MPH,! History again!
@jessehughes8274
3 ай бұрын
I'm from Utah, where 10-15 MPH over the 70-75 MPH speed limit is the real law. I'm pretty sure bringing up the idea of speed governors will get me shot by people who will see it as "big government overreach" and "urban prioritization over rural folks."
@peterryrfeldt8568
Жыл бұрын
You know there is just one tiny problem with the nuclear analogy: coal. Coal is an inferior method of power production that kills way more people and is worse for the environment and climate, and yet people freak out over nuclear safety and discourage that in favour of coal... So yeah ig it actually is a perfect analogy to e-scooters and cars...
@jacktattersall9457
Жыл бұрын
I recommend binge-watching ads from the Transport Accident Commission from the Government of the State of Victoria, which has an excellent ad disproving the idea of being an above-average driver (which it is not a statistically possible for everyone to be).
@bobbid65
Жыл бұрын
I recently returned from a road trip through an area of the US different from where I live. I made a point of following the speed limit with the cruise control. Most of the time another driver was on my bumper. I guess I was not "in the know" as to the REAL speed limit. I have been known to pull over and let the faster drivers go by. This happens in other areas of the country, too, but not at this level. Fortunately, I and my rental car returned without incident. (Had to vent.)
@TheOnceAndFutureDoug
Жыл бұрын
There's one class of vehicle that needs to be able to go faster than the posted speed: Motorcycles. I ride a motorcycle in SF and 99% of the time I'm going the same speed as everyone else. Even when I'm not it's usually because everyone else is stopped and I'm carefully filtering to the front. But sometimes I need to go faster than traffic, and faster than the posted speed limit. For a car, if someone's about to do something stupid you have one very great option: Slam on your brakes. At normal surface street speeds you're going to be just fine, even if your car might not be. Motorcycles don't want to emergency brake. A side-swipe from a car is rarely lethal to a motorcyclist (at speed physics keeps us upright). But being rear-ended can be a death sentence. And being rear-ended by someone in an SUV is almost guaranteed to be. This is why filtering and lane splitting reduce motorcycle deaths, by the way. So if I get into trouble because someone didn't notice me my best option is to accelerate or swerve. And I can definitely out accelerate any problem, even on a small displacement bike. But if I'm electrically limited you've just taken away the best defense I have against drivers. Maybe the rule is it's just for cars and not for motorcycles. Maybe we add rules to remove pickups and SUVs from our streets. Maybe we outlaw self-driving tech in cities. But honestly the real answer is way simpler than all of this: Most streets are pedestrian only and cities become places for people, not vehicles. You want to get around down town? Ride a bike, take a bus.
@malcolmmarzo2461
Жыл бұрын
Besides the usual traffic hazards, there has been a lot of plain craziness going on in traffic in this covid era. Neurologic damage due to the spike protein?
@JustClaude13
Жыл бұрын
Streets should be scary to drive on. Drivers should feel like they have to pay attention and stay alert to keep their fenders safe and whole. Start by narrowing lanes. A 12 foot freeway lane in the middle of a local street is not a good idea. Just to start. A 10 foot lane can handle semi-trucks, and a 9 foot lane if no trucks are allowed on that street. The extra space can be used for a bike lane to remove bicycles from traffic. This will make bicycling more attractive and free up more space in the traffic lanes. And as a bonus, it can be done for free. The lanes need to be resurfaced anyway, so when we do we can just readjust the widths and layout at no additional cost.
@DougGrinbergs
Жыл бұрын
Extended VisionZero mantra: All modes. All ages. All abilities. All times of day. All weather conditions. Zero fatalities. Zero excuses. 🚲✌️
@roberthuron9160
Жыл бұрын
One problem not noted,is that the Highway Trust Fund is continually reloaded[ it stands at 11TRILLION DOLLARS,currently],and public transport,biking,etc,are treated as interlopers,and third class citizens! Simply,where is the equality before the Law?? Without the bikers[League of American Wheelman],the entirety of the road network wouldn't exist! But politicians never read history,and Constitutional Law,isn't on the table! Also,the streetcar companies were required by franchises to pave roads,and in all the books,I've ever read,none of them were compensate d,by city,state or county governments,yet the automobiles got a pass,how come?? The two tiered government system is nothing new,it's only more blatant now!! Thank you for the insight,and information,much remains to be done! Again thank you 😊! 😊
@ooo-vc4xl
Жыл бұрын
Speed governors are fine, but it will take the whole fleet to turn over before every vehicle has one. A lot can be done cheaply with paint and raised pavement markers to engineer the roads to fit the reduced speed limits. There are other cheap options to reduce DSIs, like getting rid of pedestrian crossings over multi lane roads (unless you're will to put speed humps and/or tables in place), and providing fully protected movements at all signalised junctions. The US could do a lot to raise fuel taxes. As a user pays capitalist society road users in the US dont pay enough to maintain the roads, let alone to upgrade them. Add congestion tolls, vehicle air pollution levy (the social cost where I am is higher than the crash cost), parking fees that actually cover the full costs of parking provision, the cost of driving would get closer to the full cost and invoke substantial mode shift.
@microdesigns2000
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the majority of injuries are caused by "above average drivers" or below average pedestrians.
@JohnDoe-my5ip
Жыл бұрын
Turning every city into Hoboken is unrealistic just from a math perspective. There just aren’t enough people when Houston and Dallas alone are 1000 sq mi. But Hoboken isn’t really an isolated city either. Why can’t every city have one square mile neighborhood with 10,000+ apartments on top of retail and offices, excellent transit access, and where private car ownership is effectively impossible? There’s obviously massive unmet demand for such neighborhoods. Hoboken’s median home price per square foot is over $800.
@TheCriminalViolin
Жыл бұрын
Well know Oregon fact: Everyone goes a average of 5mph over the speed limits in the state. And cops always do the same thing, so they never pull anyone over for it at all. Its been this way longer than I've been alive at nearly 30 years. For me, I agree with those who think increasing the speed on the freeways may actually be a good idea in the long run, though, with the amount of arrogant and inattentive drivers these days... you probably would see many arguing the opposite too. But my god do we need to lower speed limits in high density areas and areas with a lot of inter-modal exchange and movements. Where I live, the street is 30mph, with fairly tight curves, a TC, and a load of 3-4 story apartments on both sides of it, with a major thoroughfare on one side with 45mph, and a Community College by the TC. There is also a rail line (MAX), and foot & bicycle path that connects our street and the TC with another major thoroughfare with the same speed limit as the aforementioned one. For the thoroughfares, 40mph makes sense in my opinion, but for my street, which is of course tucked in-between two thoroughfares and surrounded by a lot of foot traffic and populations, the speed limit is way too high. When I'm driving, 30mph feels way too fast for it. 20mph is fine for sure. But much above and it becomes simply too much in my opinion. When I took my drivers test in Wilsonville, I was instructed to drive down and around this inner suburban street, and the speed was 25mph, but I'm telling you, again, you could tell even as a driver, that was way too fast. In situations like that, it should be 15mph max, with 5-10 being where I think it makes the most sense for it to be. All those driveways, the weird spindly intersections, blind corners preventing you as a motorist, let alone ped to see if anyone is coming around them, and the trees and bushes, with a park in the middle of it all? How the hell does 25mph make a lick of sense? I think for the most narrow/typical of suburban streets, the limit should be set to 10mph, and for those like where I currently live, 20mph.
@billruss6704
Жыл бұрын
I live in a 25mph school zone. People drive past like they are going down a quarter mile dragstrip. They don't even slow down for the stop sign much less stop. When the bus stops to drop off kids the driver gets out and stands in the middle of the street with a handheld stop sign and people blow right past him. Bad humans.
@antoniovitellaro
Жыл бұрын
I think they should also limit the weight of vehicles you can drive with your licence, and heavily tax the non commercial ones nearing this limit. Here in the EU you cant legally drive vehicles heavier than 3.5 tons, and i think that heavily taxing ownership of non-commercial vehicles more than 2tons heavy could decrease the number of heavier vehicles on the road, leading to safer streets.
@randgrithr7387
Жыл бұрын
It's more profitable to manufacture big SUVs/overbuilt pickup trucks here in the US because they have fewer safety regulations. Yeah.
@markckohl
Жыл бұрын
I really like your channel CityNerd. You have really opened my eyes and made me a better driver. I live in the car-centric city of Saint George, Utah which is a two-mile drive to Las Vegas, Nevada the one thing that makes our city better is that we have an extensive bicycle, and walking trails and plenty of nice parks where people can ride bikes, walk, jog, run, etc. and a place separated from cars, so people can be safe while recreating. You still need a car to get to these places in our community, and the trails won't get you to the shopping district. We have a fairly walkable downtown, which is nice. I like your ideas regarding speed governors, except requiring them would probably not apply to the millions of existing cars, SUVs, and trucks on the road. I received a speeding ticket a few months ago, and I no longer exceed the speed limit and try to be an as careful driver as possible, but drivers constantly tailgate me and try to run me off the road for simply obeying the law. They are very aggressive and rude on the freeway from Las Vegas, and at least 90 percent of the drivers exceed the speed limit by 15 mph or more. It's scary to me because I don't want to die because of their recklessness and total disregard for the law. The law is selectively enforced, and too many drivers get a pass. I learned something from my traffic school course. SPEEDING KILLS. Here is the idea I posted on Facebook to my 5000 friends which is the maximum number of friends you can have on an account. I'm popular on FB, not on KZitem. I hope you might address my idea on KZitem, I think it's a great idea and make lots of passive income for cities to improve roads and make them safer for all. My FB Post here it is, it's kind of long but worth reading.: I have an idea that could reduce injuries, and death, and reduce CO2 emissions. All while making people lesser stressed and better drivers, it would require a moderate investment to implement and would generate lots of passive income for the government, reducing taxes for everyone. Install speed cameras on all freeways and major city streets, as well as red light cameras at all intersections. Then issue tickets to all offenders by mail, reducing the need for traffic cops so they can perform better policing and eliminate selective, random enforcement of the law. Issue large fines to all offenders. If the person fails to pay, then suspend his license or registration, if you own the car, you are responsible for your car no matter who was driving unless it's stolen, and you reported it. The officers can pall over any car with any obstruction to a plate or if the plate comes back suspended and arrest them for not paying the fine. Reckless drivers should be arrested. Speeding kills. Even the safest car doesn't hold up well, crashing at 90 miles per hour into someone going 55 miles per hour in a construction zone. That innocent person was killed by a maniac driving 90 in a 55. I have to drive a lot, and it is scary on the freeway between Utah and Nevada near Las Vegas Nevada people all seem to drive superfast and never slow down they drive 85 in the 75 zones, the 65 zones, and the 55 zones through the 55 zone in the mountain pass in a 55 zone most drivers drive 70-80 miles per hour like it's a racetrack thus includes trucks and buses going 70 though this section of road with warnings to slow down around the corners and most drivers speed up. Horrible deadly accidents happen all the time plus the excess energy wasted and CO2 emissions driving slower saves a lot of energy. I don't want to die because I'm obeying the law. The drivers are super aggressive because speeding is more stressful it's exciting as well, so it makes people more aggressive and rude. Which speed cams all drivers are treated equally well and held accountable for their actions and thousands of lives are saved every year and make the fine is large enough to pay for the road.❤ Merrill Crump was my best friend 1963-2021 RIP. I have posted your video to my wall. If you want to know more about me, my profile page is facebook.com/bearkarma.net if you message me I will try and respond, but sometimes I get a lot a messes and calls on messenger so I might never respond. The best way to contact if you want a response is to email me at bear271@duck.com . I have lived in Henderson and Las Vegas area since 1988 I am a 52-year-old and enjoy being safe on the road. I want everyone out there to be safe. Thank you for your good work on KZitem.
@Servergmr
5 ай бұрын
When a mayor lowers a 5 lane road's speed limit to 25 miles an hour from 35 but people are still going to do 35 and some treat it like a highway and clearly do like 50.
@dereklenzen2330
Жыл бұрын
I understand the sentiment behind a desire for speed governors. However, I think that they will make new cars more expensive, which is hard on lower-income people. I think two other reforms would be a less expensive option to bring down traffic fatalities. The first is implementing traffic calming measures in urban and suburban areas to force/strongly encourage drivers to slow down and be cautious, which I am sure that most viewers of this channel are already familiar with. The main obstacle to this that I have seen is a cumbersome bureaucratic process required in many urban areas to have such measures installed. The second is requiring a special endorsement on driver's licenses in order to operate "large" personal vehicles. ("Large" can be defined as vehicles exceeding a certain weight, a front end taller than a certain height, high ground clearance, wide, towing a trailer, etc.) The endorsement will be given to drivers meeting a certain age (21?) and have taken a class explaining the heightened danger of operating a large vehicle as opposed to an ordinary sedan. In addition, the endorsement can be stripped from the driver if he is found driving dangerously, however that may be defined.
@volodymyrzablotsky5372
Жыл бұрын
Electric cars are more dangerous in my opinion. Twice the weight of a traditional car because of the battery and completely silent to pedestrians! Love biking, but can be difficult in the winter months. Need more underground/overground walkways.
@baesedingame
Ай бұрын
It amazes me how much people speed! I purposely drive the limit 90% of the time because especially when driving with my family I know that less force = good, plus I leave plenty of following distance which no one seems to do either. So many people are always in a hurry that they drive like lunatics. Just being in the car at all generally has me more agitated, I much prefer cycling but that's not very doable for my particular circumstances right now aside from commuting to work once or twice a week.
@6yjjk
Жыл бұрын
Those national road death numbers represent a 9/11 every month. Humans are really poor at judging where the real danger lies.
@xtinafusco
Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate the sarcastic + click baity title
@Fabrosixdx
Жыл бұрын
Modest proposal to add stands with RPGs at each crosswalk. Who would carelessly drive through a crosswalk when they could be subject to anti-vehicular fire?
@danielsass4134
6 ай бұрын
I am from Phoenix. I’ve worked in 48 states. I always say that Phoenix has some of the worst drivers because there are no consequences for bad driving here. Police do not give tickets. I lived in Kentucky for a couple of years a while back and people drove so much safer because the police there give tickets as a hobby. I wish far more tickets were issued.
@thecitizen49
Жыл бұрын
Every car is a potential weapon every motorist a potential psychopath.
@barryrobbins7694
Жыл бұрын
At least you can’t conceal a car.
@anticyclingclub
6 ай бұрын
I live in Downtown Portland but occasionally i have to cross the I5 bridge with my bike to get to Vancouver for clients, and my god the route is terrible and you have to mix with cars more than i or anyone else should be comfortable with. You start to understand what it's like to be discriminated against as a minority given how few people ride bikes here and how seriously people take someone riding on the road and wasting 30 seconds of their time. I got tailgated by someone while laying on their horn only to hit a red light. I'm usually a really calm and composed person but riding in car traffic is one of those things that actually causes me to lose my mind and go into an adrenaline rush because of how close i can be to dying sometimes just because i inconvenienced someone.
@mattahlschwede4810
Жыл бұрын
The chicken and the egg problem of speed limits vs infrastructure seems somewhat solvable to me: 1) reduce speed limits 2) set up speed traps and traffic cops in affected areas 3) use the funds from increased tickets to pay for better infrastructure Maybe there are some nuances missing, but the basic mechanism seems pretty sound
@Urbanhandyman
Жыл бұрын
Your proposal doesn't look at the actual design of the roadway being the contributor to high-speed driving. Make roadways narrower, have less lanes, eliminate one-way multi-lane streets, and add speed bumps, and you will give a driver a natural reason to drive slower.
@thetayz72
Жыл бұрын
Do you really think a reasonable fine for modest speeding would raise funds for better infrastructure? I mean say you bilked $100 from 10,000 cars .. that would hardly even break ground on a serious construction project, plus the maintenance and administration on the traps and police salary.
@mattahlschwede4810
Жыл бұрын
@@thetayz72 Not all infrastructure involves a major construction project. It only takes a little paint to make a bike lane, for example.
@MrTaxiRob
Жыл бұрын
Future show topic: How would you reshuffle major league sports conferences and divisions around intercity rail?
@timpekarek9159
9 ай бұрын
I really can't figure out things here in St. Louis. Pedestrian safety is a constant topic here because there are so many deaths and injuries. As the family of a teenage athlete visiting for an athletic event discovered tragically earlier this year, you aren't even safe ON THE SIDEWALKS! The young woman lost both of her legs when a high speed collision sent vehicles off the street. There does not even seem to be any method to the madness here. Part of the problem is clearly that the police force has been downsized so much ( because it is a dangerous job that pays poorly), that there is practically NO ENFORCEMENT of traffic laws, and drivers love to take advantage of that. A fact that recently came to light is that 40% of traffic accidents here are hit and run. I walk and ride a bike often and I daily see the most dangerous situations allowed only because cars and trucks and their drivers are basically given all urban space to careen through at will. Here are a few examples...Forest Park is a major landmark in the city, but getting into the park from nearby neighborhoods without driving can induce nightmares. Kingshighway is a stroad bordering Forest park on the east. The intersection at West Pine has and amber signal that is so brief that if you enter the intersection on a bike as the light goes from green to red it is impossible to get across all the lanes before the signal changes and traffic is moving. Another thing that happens often is that at a busy intersection, for no apparent reason, the lights will be on four way flashing red, even during rush hour. This happens very often at the intersection of Market and 18th street, which is right outside, Union Station. Flashing red lights in St. Louis mean slow down for some drivers but seem to be invisible to most drivers. I was very nearly hit by a driver recently by a driver who didn't slow down at all, and even though it was daylight must not have seen me in the crosswalk. I now have the habit, if I see a four flash there, I will walk up the street a short distance, wait for traffic to slow down and jaywalk, it seems safer to wade through traffic when I only need to keep sight of traffic from two directions. City and State government has been totally unresponsive to the situation of our unsafe streets.
@Tvtyrant2
Жыл бұрын
Somehow no one has mentioned not paving the car roads and paving just sidewalks. It's by far the cheapest and easiest solution IMO. Gravel roads inhibit speed naturally and cost next to nothing to maintain.
@bigwheelsturning
Жыл бұрын
I've noticed in the past few months that the Washington State DOT has changed a lot of it's "walk signals" to walk before the cars get green lights. It's good, but for the asshaps that are making RH turns who don't look for you. How about a $10 gas tax to fund safer streets?
@eaglescout1984
3 ай бұрын
Sounds like a good idea in theory, but how do you implement speed governors in such a way that limits cars to 20 MPH in a city center, while still able to do highway speeds on the interstates?
@Kaniela-xq8vl
Жыл бұрын
Dripping with sarcasm
@onlysends696
Ай бұрын
As much as a car guy that I am, I'm on board with the idea of speed limiters on vehicles. Perhaps slower speed limiters for commercial vehicles and pickup trucks, say 60mph, and small cars at 65? Or just keep it the same all together?
@AaronFlora1
Жыл бұрын
@citynerd great video. I have one point regarding the “85th percentile” rule that I think it’s important to note. I agree it’s a bad standard for setting speed limits, but there is a lot of value in using the standard to determine there’s a problem with a street. For instance, in Dayton OH where I’m from, all of our downtown streets are “four poles wide”, dating back to the early 1800s when some guy had a pole set all the street widths. Because of that, we have some excessively wide streets for a downtown environment that can turn into drag strips. There were even some articles written last year about “hooning”, which I’m convinced was made up by city leaders that wanted to put giant speed bumps on a stroad in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. If city planners used the 85th percentile rule to set speed limits, you are correct we could be looking at 45mph+ highways right downtown. However, using that same rule should tell city leaders that if the speed a driver feels they should go is 45mph+ right downtown there’s a big problem with the street design, and traffic calming measures like bike lanes and pedestrian spaces should be introduced. Dayton for instance has been doing a good job getting some of these implemented, like on East Second Street, but there’s a lot more work to be done
@danbert8
Жыл бұрын
Traffic design should set speed limits. Sadly it doesn't... Meanwhile 35 and 75 have people exceeding the speed limit constantly and safely because the speed limits set are mainly arbitrary on highways especially in urban spaces. They spent all that money making both highways safer designed and the speed limits remained artificially low. Highways should let you go fast if they are designed for it. Urban city streets should make you go slow.
@YounesLayachi
Жыл бұрын
Paradigm shift... _groan_ 🤣
@Tanktaco
Жыл бұрын
20 is so slow, like pull my eyes out slow. If cites wanna restrict traffic as such then we need to see further regulation changes to allow smaller lighter cars to return, give us the kei cars, encourage motorcycles.
@briansieve
Жыл бұрын
Cars, hate speech at church, and guns. Toxic US exceptionalism.
@Name-ot3xw
Жыл бұрын
I look back on my youthful reckless driving and wonder why anyone ever let me have a car that can go 120. I obviously wasn't mature enough for it.
@barneyh5314
Жыл бұрын
Reducing the speed of traffic to 20 will certain make it less convenient to travel and do a lot for "Remote work" and "remote learning" as people want to stay in their own communities and close to home. I guess that would be good for the environment, a throwback to the 19th century when people stayed in their own villages for their entire lives and only occasionally went to the big city. And nowadays, its actually a lot more practical with modern communications technology.
@ThePlaceAndTime
Жыл бұрын
I love that you used the speedometer from a Smart Fortwo in the thumbnail
@NoirMorter
Жыл бұрын
I hadn't realized that was how most if not all our speed limits were decided until I began watching these. It makes little sense to me instead it should have been the urban designers/traffic engineers should decide what's best not the drivers. And anyone that doesn't like it... well that's what cops are for.
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