Crosspost
Amazing you can’t even be safe from cars while you are sitting in your own damn house. A whole building can’t protect you from cars.
Autopilot is idiotic and to blame for this, but cars have been driving through buildings while people are operating too. Lord knows at least a few times a year I see a building where one of the walls or large windows has a massive sheet of plywood and caution tape covering it because someone plowed their car through it.
There was also an incident in Canada in the last few years where a kid was run over and killed by a car while playing inside the building of his daycare. It came roaring through the window. The inside of a daycare is not safe from cars and that still blows my mind.
Maybe barriers would help some. Also building design that doesn’t have enormous windows large enough a car can easily break through. Ultimately though cars are just so dangerous to everyone in general. More trains and accessibility that helps take away the need for cars would be the best solution.
My dad nearly died from an elderly man plowing through the wall of the 7/11 he was shopping at. A magazine rack that happened to be in the way managed to stop the car in time. Cars are dangerous enough, letting elderly folk pilot them around is even worse.
I’ve also been hit by an elderly person because they somehow didn’t see me riding my scooter in front of them and tried turning right on a red light without looking both ways first.
Maybe we can replace the boring bluegrass lawns with boulders.
My parents used to have to periodically replace their mailbox because drivers kept running over it. That stopped when they put 2 foot tall boulder next to it.
I put a wall of stones across my front yard, in part becase it looks good, but also in part because there was a car crash in front of my house the first week that I lived here, and one of the cars demolished the neighbors’ stone wall (and not their house).
In France we have a solution for this : Our front yards have concrete / stone / brick fences ; and our exterior house walls are 1m thick of the same material.
Barring a freight truck, you are NOT crashing any sort of car through that.
1m exterior walls? Do you live in a medieval castle?
Literally yes
No. I’ve barely ever seen a house whose walls are thinner than 50cm, usually it’s between 50 and a full meter.
My house does have a tower, but it was built in the 1900s, and I’d say it’s much too small to be called a castle !
Europeans often have thick walls that then have foam insulation added to the outside. 1m is relatively thin.
They come to Australia and have a lot of trouble finding a building style that has thick enough walls. One I spoke to recently wasn’t happy with double brick; double block (think breeze blocks, but solid) would be close
What. Anything above 50cm is rare, and I’ve never heard of a house having 1m of outer walls.
ftr, I live in a 120yrs old house (location is in Germany), walls are about 45cm (double-walled, just brick). Adding insulation will increase this to about 60cm . I’m planning on building a new home, walls will be about 40cm (inner sheeting + 24cm wood framing + 6cm outer insulation + 6cm facade). Anything above that and you’re about to enter Passive House land, and why would you go beyond that
Great, need to install some bollards in the yard now.
I know this is going against the narrative here, but with what little facts we have to go on
- the article said autopilot, not full self driving
- said it couldn’t stay in lane, which seems more like human behavior
At the risk of putting it all back on the driver, if you floor it they have some incredible acceleration. Yes, to the point where they would be hard to control if you were surprised. Another possibility is they panicked and stomped on the wrong pedal. If they were using autopilot with their foot away from the pedal, then using the wrong one in a panic becomes more likely
Autopilot is adaptive cruise control and lane keeping. It is not self-driving. It also doesn’t accelerate hard.
I’m sure the driver was holding the pedal down, letting the car self steer until it couldn’t
