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[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Love the content, hate the headline shifting blame away from the actual vehicle. The blame isn’t really with the roads, or the lifesaving people driving who actually do have to get there fast, is it?

[–] PedestrianError@towns.gay 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@beefbot @TheTechnician27 Firetrucks are inanimate objects. Humans make decisions about how to design, deploy, market, and accommodate them. A local fire chief just parroting industry dogma may be less responsible than someone with more power who chose not to sell reasonably sized fire trucks for suburbs and small towns in the US, but the trucks aren’t buying themselves or testifying against safe street designs at the planning board.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

True, you have a point. Ergo the headline should blame the humans with that power, not the inanimate roads, I guess (I don’t get everything right!)