Driving dangerously.
You are not in fast'n'fourious, you are just a piece of shit endangering every one around you
I "love" how we need to keep on studying things that are flat out good for society while bad things just get rolled out without the same onus of proof.
Things that need to be proven over and over and over:
- Universal Basic Income
- Walkable cities prioritising pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit
- Low speed limits for cars
- No-strings housing for homeless
- High taxes for the rich
And the list goes on and on... why do we make it so hard to improve our society while making it so easy to ruin it?
Source:
https://social.ainmosni.eu/@ainmosni/statuses/01JRW8RRB5RCHZZYBHW2WYKHZE
That line is something we really need. But I think it's far from being enough to revive anything more than 50 km away from Bari...
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This was easy
Perfetti, an italian company, tha I just discovered merged with a dutch company!
No pu(ti)n intended I guess!
Oh, ok, I wasn't aware. I will try to crosspost this later,
I don't understand. Is there an issue in that community? (I'm not ironic)
A collective of pedestrians living in the Brussels is fighting illegal parking by putting humorous stickers on the rear windows of cars parked on the pavement – hindering people wanting to walk or cycle safely.
The sticker read: "Don't be a Putin. Don't annex the pavement."
Thank you, great to hear all my points are being addressed! The thing about post rendering, well, I just hope a common solution is found 😊
thank you! I will keep an eye on those
Nah... Missing IMHO:
What if we handle road safety as general safety?
The hierarchy hazard controls is a de facto standard for determining which measures to take in the presence of risks. The principles can be (and I would argue that they should be) applied to road safety.
From the most effective to the least effective measure, we have:
Elimination: Avoid road trips. Of course it is rarely possible.
Substitution: Replace dangerous vehicles with non-hazardous vehicles. That is, cars should be limited
Engineering controls: people are isolated from risks: cycle paths, sidewalks everywhere, speed bumps, raised crossings, narrowing of the roads
Administrative controls: speed limits, 30 km/h cities, speed cameras, training courses.
And last and most definitely least:
Those who push for certain measures do not understand anything about safety, and thus would start from the bottom of the hierarchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_hazard_controls
crossposted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113978193983638459
Wapo journalist verifies that robotaxis fail to stop for pedestrians in marked crosswalk 7 out of 10 times. Waymo admitted that it follows "social norms" rather than laws.
The reason is likely to compete with Uber, 🤦
Wapo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/30/waymo-pedestrians-robotaxi-crosswalks/
Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113746178244368036
I think that the lightest you can get is SNAC: written in portable C, it requires only an ngix server, and no database.
It's ideal for single used instances or automated projects
Here some background and how tos: https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html
And here the description of fedimeteo, that provides forecasts for thousands of cities on the fediverse using a slim low cost vps' https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/