• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The only way to solve the self driving cat issue is to ban all human drivers from the road.

    …and cyclists, and pedestrians, and farm tractors, and horses, and wagons, and stray pets, and wildlife, and…

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      1 day ago

      Cyclist belong on their bicycle lanes , and those lanes belong besides every road.

      Pedestrians belong on walkways, along every road

      What is about stray pets and railroads? Horses , dogs, cats?

      If we are talking about something so unrealistic and futuristic like autonomous vehicles lvl 5+. We may as well assume that we fixed everything else at that point of time.

      Or, we just can take this as what it is. A sarcastic joke

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      1 day ago

      Cyclists and pedestrians shouldn’t be on the road.

      Unless you’re in the US (my condolences) you have a footpath/sidewalk/pavement for walking.

      Bikes should (but rarely do) have their own physically seperated infrastructure, so they’re not getting hit by cars/busses/trucks/etc and not hitting pedestrians.

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        1 day ago

        Cyclists can go on the road just fine, as long as the road is built and regulated for more than just cars

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        Eh, it depends. Faster bike traffic shouldn’t really be in such close proximity to pedestrians. On a lot of city streets, a fast bike is way closer to the speed of a car than to a pedestrian. City centers, especially non arterials, I’d say they should be in the street if there’s no path. I’m not particularly fast at just under 30kph and it’s rare for traffic to be much faster downtown here, especially non arterials I’m often passing them. I think that’s generally too fast to safely ride on a sidewalk, but a safe speed there would make cycling not very practical for me.

        Which I can assure, unfortunately, no cycle paths is often the case in my part of eastern/central Europe