• rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    When you let an industry regulate itself, you end up with the 737-MAX and a reassurance that existing 737 pilots don’t need further training to fly it…

  • LovesTha🥧@floss.social
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    Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn’t the better interim solution.

    While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.

    It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.

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      Modern headlights are blinding to anyone not in the vehicle using them. Oncoming headlights if you’re in anything shorter than whatever is producing them makes it near-impossible to see the road.

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      It isn’t just brightness. It’s also the height, how they’re pointed, and whether the driver is an asshole who doesn’t dim the brights for oncoming traffic.

  • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️@slrpnk.net
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    I’m a new driver who drives sometimes, and when I do it’s with my grandfather’s old car. It is a problem. I don’t care what reasons you have to suggest they’re better, if I can’t see fcking anything at night when a car drives past me, that’s a problem. I want to be able to see pedestrians, I want to be able to see if an animal is in my way, roadsigns, literally anything I need to see and I genuinely can’t do that. It’s blinding and that’s not an exaggeration