We need to be doing more to control car usage and ownership. It should be made extremely difficult to get your car to a place where people are walking to be able to run them over. There should always be bollards or some other physical structure when physical proximity between cars and people is unavoidable.
People with cars are the most dangerous human-threat things to me and my family members and that’s why I don’t own a car, don’t drive a car and live a lifestyle in which I very rarely have to get in one.
I wish countries would make the same option easy for everyone. For most people in North America, life is unlivable without a car, currently.
Only carefully trained and regulated professional transport or delivery drivers should be allowed to operate 1~3 ton killing machines. It’s insanity that 16-year-olds and 80-year-olds can with barely any oversight at all.
it sounds like you are exaggerating, but if you compare street design, a lot can be done. for example, the street outside my home has a sidewalk, a bike lane, and a row of bushes and trees before getting to car traffic. the distance from me to a moving car is more than 5 meters.
A few basic laws would drastically reduce the mortality rate: cap gas tanks to 5 gallons, cap max speed to 25 mph, require monthly psych evals at DMV, and weekly checkins with a local sheriff, and a hotline to report suspicious neighbors that look unstable and should rather take a bus. Ideally we would just ban these machines of destruction: when this country was founded, people used horses, so I see no reason why anyone should feel entitled to own a car.
That's because a mass shooting is often defined as 3+ victims of gun violence in one incident. If you heard "Mass shooting in Times Square" most people wouldn't assume "three people shot in restaurant bathroom with handgun".