“82 year olds shouldn’t be driving”. — THIS one shouldn’t have been; some people enter their90s with sight, hearing and reflexes intact.

Personally, I think that starting at 70, drivers should have to take the written test and screening every 5 years. If they fail to pass it they have to re-try until they do pass, and then take the practical exam again.

One of the greatest downfalls of design in America are Stroads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad They're anti pedestrian.

The article doesn't say which side of the road he was on.

When I was a kid in scouts, we were taught that if you have to walk on the edge of a highway then it is best to walk on the opposing side of traffic (the left). This way if a vehical is veering off and might hit you, you have some time to react and step off. Rather than them hitting you from behind.

It sounds like the biggest issue here might be that the driver didn't do her due diligence to check what she hit. Maybe if an ambulance had been called sooner then he might have survived.

How does one even roller blade across the continental divide? I guess you could take I 10 thru thru the desert but that is equally crazy.

Every six months or so I pull up to a light next to someone with oxygen tubes in their nose.

If you need oxygen you should not be driving.

But I get why. Around here a ten minute trip by car is easily an hour on public transit, followed by walking miles. Ain’t nobody got time for that, especially if you have to haul your own O2.

I love driving, especially in my car, but we need better solutions for people who shouldn’t or don’t want to drive. I see them every day on the road.

It would at least mean I’m dealing with a professionally trained, drug tested bus driver instead of someone who may not even know where they are.

(Which is how they drive.)

If you hit a human sized object without seeing it, turn around and still don't see it and only see the damage at homw which makes you call the cops? That's pretty insane.

There was somethi g about drone striking brown children and the pressident dissolving children after some rape.

Or MIT prof, Seymour Papert, who was visiting Hanoi for a conference and had been discussing how to build a mathematical computer model of Hanoi's notoriously chaotic traffic to present at the end of it. He ended up getting hit crossing the street and ended up in a coma for weeks. Complications from it eventually killed him.