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San Francisco traffic deaths: Pedestrians must do better, drivers say (sfstandard.com)
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Daylighting, which involves removing parked cars from around crosswalks in order to improve visibility and just wiped out about 14,000 street parking spaces, has proved especially controversial.

“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer,” Nina Geneson Otis wrote in an email to The Standard. The real estate broker said daylighting is the kind of policy that makes Democrats lose elections.

Others say the city’s actions remove responsibility from pedestrians to look out for their own safety. “A pedestrian can do anything, and be irresponsible, and no harm will come to them?” Brandi said, describing the policies as “idiot-proof.”

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[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Manual transmissions were better for this stuff too. You can pick a lower gear with more torque to give you power to get up the hill without high speed. Most automatic transmissions can let you force a specific gear as well but many people don't know how to use that function of their car, which can partially be blamed on poor driver education.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

In the automatics I've driven, the car automatically downshifts if it needs more power to climb the hill -- do some automatics just stall out?

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes you really gotta ask it to downshift by pushing the pedal down then most follow through with high speed cause they are worried to lose it. Way easier to just start in a good gear.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

For me if I let up on the gas, it will slow down, and then downshift to be able to maintain the slower speed on the hill.

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