I crashed a road safety conference & one of Q&A sessions had a Q about distracted driving. Most panelists gave the usual spiel. But The planners from Guelph pointed out that that kids can be distracting and also that Finland has phones and no deaths. It's solvable, we are just doing it wrong.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last mo.“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
