The Perfect Pedestrian (1927)
The Perfect Pedestrian (1927)
"The Perfect Pedestrian ; or, Making the World Safe for Motocracy."
Cartoon in Punch Magazine, Feb 2, 1927.
Things I've seen people doing while driving: taking phone calls without using hands free, adjusting their stereo or AC or any number of other buttons that are off to the side and usually require looking down, reaching across to get something out of the glove box, texting, putting on makeup, reading a book!?
When I got hit by a car while riding my bike I was wearing high vis, it was daytime, I was in a cylcle lane, they were on a giveway/yield and yet some people I told about it after the fact STILL implied it was probably my fault because I didn't see them or wasn't looking for random maniacs running giveways?! I WAS looking and DID see them but you only have so much time to react and the choice between slowing down versus speeding up to avoid impact is not so clear when you only have seconds at best and your brain is going FUCKSHITFUCKWHATDOIDO?!
No enough high-viz! How can anyone who's on their phone while driving possibly see this guy! /s
Who knew "fuck cars" is almost 100 years old?
Like a lot of our problems: They were obviously a problem when they were new and continued to be obviously a problem up until they'd propagandized generations that grew up with them being a reality. It's not so much a matter of the people of the past being dim-witted enough to go in for these bad ideas but rather the robber barons who're interested in them spending a lot of time to normalize them in order to get much richer off of them at all our continued expense.
when cars first became a thing people actually hated them way more than we do now, a significant chunk of people outright wanted cars to be basically entirely banned and were successful in legislating things we'd find extremely silly nowadays, like requiring a person walking in front of the car waving a red flag, or coming to a full halt and like.. dismantling the car when a horse passes it!
at this point cars are like an eldrich entity so deeply ingrained in our minds that we simply cannot imagine a world where they don't exist, it's insane.
Originally found on the big and now nazi platform:
VisionZeroCA/status/916952016152297472Thank you for not linking it.
I love this !
Give that man a brick