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Yeah, not a fan of cyclists. And it's kind of braindead to have my car break because if I hit a pedestrian somehow it is its job to absorb the impact. Maybe cyclists and pedestrians should be more mindful of their surroundings.

The EU regulations have killed all the nice things about cars: straight lines, retractable headlights and so on.

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The two ton deadly weapon is definitely the one at fault, not the person just living life.

There is no nice things about cars.

You know what else will be braindead in your nice world? The child who runs out in front of a car after a rigid tight-angled metal corner drives into their skull. These regulations aren't about blame or "drivers/pedestrians/cyclists should be more aware!", they're about reducing or avoiding as much harm as possible when things don't go to plan and an accident happens.

I guess you can ask the parents why the kid was unsupervised, no? Not blame the car.

You seem to be desperate to talk about blame but ultimately they're called accidents for a reason. Not because we want them to happen, not because we can always prevent them. Regulations like this are about changing the outcome, not the initial reason it happened.

I am saying it is a BS regulation to have a car that breaks itself if it hits someone.

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