I see too many people treat a roundabout like a stop sign when it is clearly empty.

Red is always on top (at least in Europe) so even color blind people know what the signal is.

Once we have proper self driving cars none of these recent "innovations" like that or the speed limiting would matter.

Ideally self driving cars would also be without a steering wheel and just be half width with a single seat or two seats facing each other to reduce energy requirements. You could just develop this with a manhattan style project and test it in a single city banning all other private cars except delivery vehicles.

Maybe redo the driving test like... At least every 20 years? There are people on the roads who got their licenses when their town didn't even had traffic lights. People who never saw a roundabout in their first 20 years of driving.

Its nice that we restrict young people by making them take more and more driving lessons and paying more for tiered licences, like we do in Europe for motorcycles and trucks.

But maybe also take a look at the 70+ year old grandpa who had two strokes and one heart attack, has two pairs of of glasses but his license says that he's perfectly fit.

I retract my statement, this looks perfectly safe and effective.

Yes.. WHY DO CARS STILL HAVE 2 SETTINGS LIKE ITS 1935. it would take basically zero effort to have low, high, stun for headlights so the rest of us who drive normal appropriate cars don't have to be blinded by selfish assholes driving a massive truck alone by themselves that they never used for work once in their lives. Yes, im a car person and despise truck posers.

People don't even need car tbh. Motorbikes everywhere please. Zip zip, less traffic, everyone pays attention to road or falls and dies.

‘Here’s an idea: let all those around you know your status.’

‘Revolutionary!’

It’s weird we haven’t already done this, but good.

I have to contend with 70-80 year olds doing 30km in an 80 while swerving across the midline because they saw a bird across the street.

sliding lights: it depends on the bulb but i imagine it would easy to see move

arrows: i dont know why you think they would point fowards or backwards they would just towards the side youre on or not

Sure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.

Sure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.

Yes.. WHY DO CARS STILL HAVE 2 SETTINGS LIKE ITS 1935. it would take basically zero effort to have low, high, stun for headlights so the rest of us who drive normal appropriate cars don't have to be blinded by selfish assholes driving a massive truck alone by themselves that they never used for work once in their lives. Yes, im a car person and despise truck posers.

I have to contend with 70-80 year olds doing 30km in an 80 while swerving across the midline because they saw a bird across the street.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/424410

Comments

If you're looking at the side of the car, you don't see them the same way as from the front. Which this whole discussion is about.

If you can see both turn signals from your point of view, current design works well enough.

i found a video to help you picture it better (https://youtube.com/shorts/ZD_34DxW_uI)

it really isnt that difficult

Wouldn’t better driving education and testing work just as well, if not better?

Sure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.

Why not move to a place where low mobility doesn't cut you off from the rest of society?

There's plenty of retirement communities where you can get around with a golf cart. In the 3 biggest cities here in SK, old folk can ride the subways for free, and sometimes you even see them drive mobility scooters on.

Other places I've been have level boarding for buses, but I've never seen someone drive a mobility scooter onto one. Certainly it wouldn't fly in SK.