That's a good point. The scots-irish honor culture which heavily influenced black culture is a big part of it too.

Police in Asian countries are also openly allowed to do things that would be considered brutality over here.

I read that in Singapore, police can beat you for littering.

Poverty plus density equals violence. I used to live in a rural area with plenty of heavily armed poor people and you didn't really have to worry about crime.

Usually it would go on in the trailer parks or in houses deep in the woods. Here it can go on one block away from your yuppie apartment.

MPD no chase policy means anyone with an out of state license and registration can do whatever they want.

Yeah, I used to live in SW VA in the mountains and driving out there was a joy. Here it's so mentally exhausting. Even driving in the suburbs is easier than DC.

> Most "semi-autonomous" features are features that engage under very rare and extreme circumstances, 99+% of the time drivers are driving their cars the exact same way we always have.

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

This isn't the case. Tesla autopilot can steer and change lanes autonomously. Other car manufacturers will catch up if they haven't already.

This is just going to train people to not pay attention while driving.

I do not believe the sensors that ensure your hands are on the steering wheel and your eyes are on the road will do an adequate job of ensuring the driver is paying attention.

Even if these systems are not actively defeated, how many of us know how to daydream while keeping our eyes forward and hands in a certain position?

I believe that slowing down EV adoption isn't a bad thing for multiple off-topic reasons.

When self-driving car technology is fully developed, then yes, that will be better for pedestrian safety. A computer cannot get fatigued, drunk, distracted, etc. However, this is a lot farther away than most people think.

Semi-autonomous driving, however, is an absolutely awful idea and will produce even worse drivers than we have now. Tons of people are getting their driving reflexes accustomed to adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist. What happens if they are in a situation where they have to drive an older car?

Yes, we need to also mandate that certain functions be physical buttons on cars. Touch screen menus are ultra distracting.

That's what regulations are for. Just force manufacturers to make more manuals. Put massive taxes on vehicle autonomy features.

End distracted driving. Mandate manual transmissions.

Yes, there is tons of jaywalking in this city.

Yes, but some safety features actually make things worse for pedestrians and cyclists. For example, A pillars (the two structural pieces to the side of the windshield) have gone up in width in order to house side airbags and meet rollover requirements. This makes the forward blind spot of a car much larger.

Yes DC's road design is at fault. If we replaced all the drivers in this area with Germans who were licensed using the German system we would still see as many accidents.