It’s Alberta, everybody and everything has a massive pickup truck. It’s the Texas of Canada, especially Calgary.

Sometimes, they’re in the cop fleet because of civil asset forfeiture. Same reason they sometimes have Porsches and shit like that.

A fleet should be a mix so when an actual pickup truck might be needed one is available.

I imagine the mix is out of proportion though for some stupid reason.

Ego issues with cops and conservatives

You forgot:

The truck was not damaged by the unprovoked child ambush

Now there's peak carbrain, just phrase it as insanely as when cops shoot a completely innocent person for no reason.

jfc like anybody asked, why even include that

Vehicle-specific speed limits are long overdue. Even having 2 or 3 categories would go a long way.

That would only work if it's enforced. It'd be significantly harder to enforce that than a ban. I'll take the ban please.

Enforcement, or the need for constant traffic surveillance, has already been raised as a problem with this approach. People tend to drive as fast as they feel safe on most streets, with the occasional unaware jerk screwing everything up. The threat of a possible ticket doesn't really work, or else we wouldn't have these problems in the first place.

A better approach is re-engineering streets for traffic calming. Basically threaten drivers with breaking or damaging their vehicle if they try too drive fast and/or in a straight line. Way more effective.

https://www.smatstraffic.com/blog/traffic-calming

Why were the outside??

Also: kids these days!!

CAR*

Children

*Adults

Not a bad idea past a certain height

"9-year-old... hit by truck." Someone should go have a talk with these trucks.

No, actually please stop with regurgitating weird language constructs.

Everybody knows that a car doesn't drive itself (STFU Tesla fanboys, it doesn't) and that a driver is responsible.

That, and yes, a vehicle DID hit them. It's not like the driver stopped, got out and beat the shit out of the toddler, his car, driven by him (doh) hit the toddler and killed her.

Yes. The car the person was in didn't hit them. When it got close enough, it transformed. Then the person spiderman'd off their wheel (now 10ft in the air) and kicked the poor little girl.

If we want to be correct, a car doesn't work like a gun. Bullets kill people. Guns shoot bullets and people shoot guns. Saying "Guns shoot people" or "people shoot people" isn't a stretch.

When dealing with collisions, saying "the vehicle didn't hit them, the person did" means the one hit never came into contact with the car.

Neither does a shooting victm come into contact with the gun or shooter. This is why the analogy works for guns and not cars.

That person was most definitely hit by a car. But today, like a hudered years ago and for the forseeable future, someone was driving that car. So yeah, they were hit by the drivier of the car. But they werem't hit by the driver and not the car. Then they must've stopped driving and given the victim a run for their money with a baseball bat. Which, again, most definitely did hit them.

Putting the news site aside, you are in a community called "fuck cars". We focus on the issue with big cars, not reckless drivers.

We point out how ridiculous it is that north america gives multi-ton death machines to 16 year olds, alcoholics, senile people, and everyone in between because you can't take away peoples driving licenses when there is no alternative transportation.

If you are here looking for humans to hate, you should probably find a different community.

Maybe previous years have been out of control too? Especially since it is possible to cut down on traffic fatalities with policy changes.

https://www.motor1.com/news/767353/this-city-went-a-year-without-a-traffic-death/

What is the acceptable amount of dead children, that if kept at that level makes letting people drive gigantic emotional support trucks worth it?

any amount of dead children should be out of control.