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But we're talking about writing laws here. For example: >with only minimal requirements made of the driver. could easily be changed by changing the requiremen

• pokeymcsnatch 2y ago
  No law is going to physically protect you from a 2 ton hunk of steel.
  • david-gpu 2y ago
    Not so sure about that one. Commercial drivers are involved in collisions less frequently, and the more stringent licensing requirements (i.e. a law) are probably helping with that. Drivers knowing that they will get away with mowing down a pedestrian so long as they say they didn't see them is also going to encourage dangerous driving. Most importantly, laws that promote safer street designs make a massive difference in pedestrian fatalities. All this to say that: laws do protect people from 2ton hunks of steel.
    • anon373839 2y ago
      > Drivers knowing that they will get away with mowing down a pedestrian so long as they say they didn't see them is also going to encourage dangerous driving. This is silly. Nobody thinks this. ”Mowing down a pedestrian”, even if one has a perfect legal defense, would be incredibly traumatic even for the driver. Traffic rules ought to be engineered with practicality (physics, the limits of human cognition and visual perception, etc.) paramount.