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Yeah, this isn't an act of god that no one could have possibly foreseen. This is system designed by humans that we have 100% control over.

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This is the key point of the research and the tool I built, and clearly I still have some work to do on making this clear on my site:

The objective is not to shift blame from one party to the other, even if its shifting from VRUs to drivers. The important thing is that we emphasize that all car crashes have a cause and known solutions! Nearly all news articles miss this point, and tend to place blame (even inadvertently) on the parties involved rather than discuss how to prevent future incidents from happening.

FWIW, one way in which you lost me early on was framing it as VRU vs driver. I don't see it in such simple terms. There are road users. It is not always the pedestrian that is killed. Sometimes it is another driver. And pedestrians can absolutely be the cause of a wreck where the driver dies. Not to mention, someone can be a VRU now, and a driver in a few minutes, then a VRU again.

There are lots of good reasons to make roads safer, lots of methods for doing so, and none of them require making drivers the villains.

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