NomNom@feddit.uk to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agoYep, young people on their phones are definitely the problem. Not dangerous drivers that kill thousands of people (mainly other drivers) each year.feddit.ukexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1external-linkYep, young people on their phones are definitely the problem. Not dangerous drivers that kill thousands of people (mainly other drivers) each year.feddit.ukNomNom@feddit.uk to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agomessage-square17linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down2·5 months agoCarbrain making things up again. If there weren’t cars in the cities, the worst thing a person with a phone could cause is bumbing into someone else at non-lethal speed.
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 months agoIf there weren’t cars, there’d still be buses, vans, trucks.
minus-square18107@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoThere’s a big difference between a constant stream of cars with noise from every direction, and the occasional delivery vehicle that you can hear coming.
minus-squareTheTetrapod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI don’t think most peoples’ dreams of a walkable utopia include those things, but you make a good point.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months agoNo, it does. The notion that urbanists want to get rid of delivery vehicles is a strawman argument used to attack us.
Carbrain making things up again.
If there weren’t cars in the cities, the worst thing a person with a phone could cause is bumbing into someone else at non-lethal speed.
If there weren’t cars, there’d still be buses, vans, trucks.
There’s a big difference between a constant stream of cars with noise from every direction, and the occasional delivery vehicle that you can hear coming.
I don’t think most peoples’ dreams of a walkable utopia include those things, but you make a good point.
No, it does. The notion that urbanists want to get rid of delivery vehicles is a strawman argument used to attack us.