#drivesafe — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #drivesafe, aggregated by home.social.
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#HfxTraffic #7 #EasternShore roads are a mess.
There was 4-5 cm of snow in Mushaboom, & a steady 3 cm all the way back through Sheet Harbour. A truck took a nose-dive in the ditch, & I wanted to verify that no one was inside. It took me 100 m to stop & turn around. It's unsafe for sure. #DriveSafe -
Truck bloat and mega-vehicles are killing people:
https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html by David Zipper
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/03/17/study-megacar-drivers-up-to-4x-more-likely-to-hit-walkers-while-turning by Kea Wilson
https://salud-america.org/did-americans-suddenly-become-worse-drivers-or-are-megacars-spiking-traffic-fatalities/ by Amanda Merck
Some of these refer to the NCAP update that already happened but it did NOT fix the problems with vehicle design regulation.
#RoadSafety #MegaCars #TowardZeroDeaths #CarCulture #SUV #trucks #transportation #driving #DriveSafe #NHTSA #NCAP #TellCongress