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Self-enforcing streets

2023-10-21 01:02:06.111954+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I've been thinking a lot about infrastructure for passive traffic enforcement via vehicle damage. Like if you drive through the middle of a roundabout and it tears out your oil pan, well, we don't want to have to go around fixing cars, but unsafe behavior should have consequences. Traffic engineering "recovery zones" are part of the problem.

So I have to admit I'm intrigued by exploring this idea. RT😀🚲 @enobacon@urbanists.social

Why are we trying to make autonomous cars when we could be making autonomous streets with much simpler logic? Car = speeding => bollard = up. No license plate => please wait here and an attendant will be with you shortly. It's like 1st graders could write this code, come on. #BanCars

RT 😀🚲 @enobacon@urbanists.social

First get self-enforcing streets figured out, then maybe robot taxis can be safe to test.

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