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by throwaway0a5e 2052 days ago
Mixed traffic is a problem that every freakin heavy industrial site in the world has managed to solve.

We just can't solve it for cities because people have their heads up their asses and everyone wants their preferred class of traffic to get preferential treatment.

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How was it solved? Consider that a designed environment is different from a built-up city with paths intended for horse-and-carriage.
By cautious rules and the ability to fire anybody who didn't follow them.
That works very well. Much better that distracted drivers and speeders.

But rules and people don't get along that well. Folks get tired and impatient. Even in the industrial environment there are expected failures per 100,000 hours etc.

Still, agreed we'd all do better with a more professional class of driver and licensing.