▲ 482 ▼ People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them (www.techdirt.com) submitted 2 years ago by Glass0448@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 127 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) part of me wishes there was a way to work towards getting bad drivers off of the roads. There is: it's called zoning reform. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I have seen some cool videos about this, although they are kind of boring I guess…. Using infrastructure to bring the speed limit down naturally and force drivers to keep their hands on the wheel permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Traffic calming is a thing, but not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about repealing zoning restrictions in order to allow traditional development again, which (since property owners aren't forced by law to cater to cars), tends to have walkable density that discourages driving. In other words, you don't have to worry about bad drivers if almost nobody's driving to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I have seen some cool videos about this, although they are kind of boring I guess…. Using infrastructure to bring the speed limit down naturally and force drivers to keep their hands on the wheel permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Traffic calming is a thing, but not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about repealing zoning restrictions in order to allow traditional development again, which (since property owners aren't forced by law to cater to cars), tends to have walkable density that discourages driving. In other words, you don't have to worry about bad drivers if almost nobody's driving to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Traffic calming is a thing, but not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about repealing zoning restrictions in order to allow traditional development again, which (since property owners aren't forced by law to cater to cars), tends to have walkable density that discourages driving. In other words, you don't have to worry about bad drivers if almost nobody's driving to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent