Crosspost
Amazing you can’t even be safe from cars while you are sitting in your own damn house. A whole building can’t protect you from cars.
Autopilot is idiotic and to blame for this, but cars have been driving through buildings while people are operating too. Lord knows at least a few times a year I see a building where one of the walls or large windows just has a massive sheet of plywood and caution tape covering it because someone plowed their car through it.
There was also an incident in Canada in the last few years where a kid was run over and killed by a car while playing inside the building of his daycare. It came roaring through the window. The inside of a daycare is not safe from cars and that still blows my mind.
Maybe barriers would help some. Also building design that doesn’t have enormous windows that are large enough that a car can easily break through. Ultimately though cars are just so dangerous to everyone in general. More trains and accessibility that helps take away the need for cars would be the best solution.
Maybe we can replace the boring bluegrass lawns with boulders.
I put a wall of stones across my front yard, in part becase it looks good, but also in part because there was a car crash in front of my house the first week that I lived here, and one of the cars demolished the neighbors’ stone wall (and not their house).
My parents used to have to periodically replace their mailbox because drivers kept running over it. That stopped when they put 2 foot tall boulder next to it.
