Originally Posted by
base2
I think the point of posts
#68 ,
#73 , (that's me) & the posts of Mr. Cranky are that the engineers enable & encourage the poor decisions & tragic higher consequence outcomes through wrong-headed design. They have the wrong human as their safety focus. So with every iteration the drivers connectedness to that human diminishes.
When I finished my post with "Freedom, or whatever..." What I meant was:
The drivers freedom to travel with out risk or consequence the only thing that matters in modern design philosophy.
No one seems to have any interest in changing that.
You are right, it is cultural at this point.
So why are you still blaming the engineers? "Wrong-headed design"? "The wrong human as their safety focus"? What does that mean? Can you give some concrete examples of how U.S. road infrastructure might change safety metrics for the better?