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TIL there's an easy piece of technology that can prevent cyclists and pedestrians from being run over and killed by trucks

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TIL there's an easy piece of technology that can prevent cyclists and pedestrians from being run over and killed by trucks

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    Good video but a terrible opening

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      Excuse me, excuse me, but this is a clearly unscripted random interaction with a fellow probably human.

      …yeah, it soured me on the rest as well, although it sounds like the idea itself is good. heh

    • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Only Billy Eichner is allowed to do that

      https://youtu.be/QwL_pRzJuR4

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    Two types of people in the world: those who don’t think about the need for this and those who spent time on liveleak.

    • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io
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      there’s no liveleak anymore. Literally tried it yesterday D:

      • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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        I’ve heard some guy named Hagseth is bringing it back

  • [deleted]@piefed.world
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    Why the fuck are they giving exemptions to vehicles that are constantly on city roads?

    • aramis87@fedia.io
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      It sounds like it’s something they can only require them on vehicles whose companies have contracts with the city. If true, I’d assume that the exempted trucks aren’t hauling away city waste - maybe construction debris or something like that.

      • [deleted]@piefed.world
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        What a shitty law.

        • hypnicjerk@piefed.social
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          not much the city can do about that - the state handles motor vehicle regulations.

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        I thought you couldn’t be right. Whelp.

        … requires large vehicles in the City Fleet and in City contracted vehicles be equipped with safety enhancing side guards …

        https://rules.cityofnewyork.us/rule/side-guards-on-heavy-duty-trade-waste-vehicles/

    • baines@lemmy.cafe
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      why were people given religious covid exemptions

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        Because society caters to stupid people.

        Obviously the exemptions for the vehicles was money.

        I hate how we as a society keep catering to stupid people and companies when it comes to basic safety practices.

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    Cringe ass advertisement.

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    “Technology” aka portable fence

    • アイス@lemmy.zip
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      I mean, yeah. A lot of innovations in safety is really just stupidly simple things that we learned the hard way (someone being hurt).

      The stupid part however isn’t how simple these things are, but rather how hard it is to get through even the most basic changes.

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      A stone wheel is “technology”.

  • MolochHorridus@piefed.social
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    I’ve never seen those guards in Finland, which is part of the E.U.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      EU has a lot of fragmented (by country) road laws.

      But guards/skirts are usually integrated into the design, not third-party add-ons.

      Random examples:





      • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        That looks clean

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    Save us Mandan!

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    A ban on trucks?

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      Trucks will always be needed. Trains can’t go everywhere.

      Also, the passenger-train utopia we both want would require lighter-duty high-speed rail, which freight trains wouldn’t be able to operate on

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        Not boxcars, no. But up to the 50s we had electric rail in my area that handled panel-van kind of packages from station to station, via shipping cars hooked to the same train as passengers.

        Then pneumatic tires and gasoline-powered buses got popular and they killed electric rail. We still haven’t the reach, speed, or versatility as we had then, since buses need to fight traffic against cars.

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