▲ 514 ▼ 'Hell on wheels': Teen convicted of crashing car at 100 mph, killing boyfriend and friend (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 3 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 175 comments fedilink hide all child comments “This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla's verdict Monday afternoon.
[–] oddityoverseer@lemmy.world 25 points 3 years ago (1 child) Or public transit improves, actually freeing up space on the road permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago* What dumb is that we can improve public transit today. Unlike self driving cars, there is no technological barrier. The only thing stopping us from improving public transit is that fact that humans (especially in North America) are selfish, greedy, easily manipulated, and apathetic. Public transit doesn't improve because not enough people don't want to use public transit and not enough people want to use public transit because it doesn't improve. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago* What dumb is that we can improve public transit today. Unlike self driving cars, there is no technological barrier. The only thing stopping us from improving public transit is that fact that humans (especially in North America) are selfish, greedy, easily manipulated, and apathetic. Public transit doesn't improve because not enough people don't want to use public transit and not enough people want to use public transit because it doesn't improve. permalink fedilink source parent