Streets are unsafe

WTH Ed, did you even read the page title:

Clearly, our streets are very safe. Maybe they weren't, in Detroit, 120 years ago. Of course I won't even ask how I'm going to repair my house with this information.

Sorry about your lack of sense of humor.

Of course I read it or I'd not have posted it. This was my favorite part: Speed demons and the law

The main cause of motor vehicle accidents was seen as excessive speeding. Until 1909 there was no regulation of street traffic in Detroit. The courts and police decided to address the problem with a simple approach: Set the speed limit to match the pace of horse-drawn wagons, such as 5 miles per hour. Make the streets as slow and safe as they were before cars.

Here in Ontario - the major freeways are 100 km per hour - < ~ 60 mph > there is some talk about raising it to 110 kph in certain sections. I like to check the police twitter posts - where they often post a screenshot of the radar gun when they nab a big fish - often in the 160 kph range, sometimes higher !

John T.

You're right, if it requires a sense of humor to think that's funny, I don't have one.

My mother was born in 1908. She was the oldest of 3. When she was 12, in Indianapolis, her father took her out and taught her how to drive. Like the articles said, no licenses then. He would go out every morning and buy vegetables from farmers, that he and/or my gramma would sell from their booth at the City Market. Maybe my mother did some of this, though she didn't say what kind of drving she did. Maybe grampa just thought she should know how, like a girl when he was growing up should know how to rid a horse.

I don't think she ever had an accident in the 48 years I knew her, and she could, as my aunt said, back down our 140 foot driveway "like a bat out of hell".

My dear < departed > MIL - much younger never had to take a drivers test - she was driving the farm cars & trucks for many many years before being grandmothered ie : given a drivers licence. But this was rural farm country ... no traffic circles no 4-lanes .. a person would generally _recognize_ or personally _know_ any other vehicle on the road .. ... they were often related .. John T.