cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17525307
But many people gonna still blame electric scooters or bikers…
Many people are going to blame the car driver and not the systemic problems that allowed a car to do this in the first place
What systemic problems are you referring to? Seoul has some of the best public transport in the world and the vehicle was a sedan. The driver either was drunk/high or had a stroke.
The systemic problems are a stroad which seems designed for high speeds, yet with many dangerous points of interactions with pedestrians and other drivers. There seems to be no infrastructure to protect pedestrians and no design features to limit speeds. As you point out, this wasn’t caused by a tank of a vehicle but a standard sedan.
This is in stark contrast to Vision Zero, a strategy where it’s nearly impossible for vehicle collisions to cause fatalities. It doesn’t matter if a driver is impaired, we have the technology to engineer away these deaths. From the images in article, the road seems to follow almost none of the tenants of Vision Zero.
Seoul has some of the best public transport in the world and the vehicle was a sedan.
Tell that to the 9 dead
