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2 pedestrians killed in hit-and-run spark calls for better infrastructure for cyclists and walkers in Montreal - Canadian Cycling Magazine (cyclingmagazine.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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Don't you just love how the driver was "likely speeding and ran a red light", but the paragraph before blames pedestrians for not looking?🙄

I don't know about Quebec, but hit-and-run drivers in Ontario don't usually get anything more than a few weeks suspended license and no jail time.

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[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Great points! I think how quiet modern electric vehicles are - even when accelerating or at high speeds - is also a concern re: pedestrian safety. We also need legislation that ensures owners of self-driving cars are fully civilly and criminally responsible - to the same degree a human driver would be - for any collisions, injuries, or other damages that their car creates while using a public road

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Human drivers should also face heavier legal consequences. You can murder someone and if it's with a car people just think "so sad, shit happens".

Cars should never have been adopted and used so much, they're terrible in many more ways than just killing tens of thousands of pedestrians every single year. For example... killing hundreds of thousands with their pollution every single year. And that's just the beginning.