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@drewda I appreciate juxtaposition with the schwinn 😂

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@drewda I appreciate juxtaposition with the schwinn 😂

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@geoff_green Scathing yet accurate commentary about what it's like to get local govt to value the lives of people when they're not driving.

#VisionZero

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@geoff_green Scathing yet accurate commentary about what it's like to get local govt to value the lives of people when they're not driving.

#VisionZero

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@shawngettler we actually do have annual safety inspections in North Carolina (including emissions, even!) but they aren't stringent, and don't really take into account the effects of vehicle modifications. Plus, you can go a long time (up to a year!) driving a demonstrably unsafe vehicle before needing to get re-inspected.

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@shawngettler we actually do have annual safety inspections in North Carolina (including emissions, even!) but they aren't stringent, and don't really take into account the effects of vehicle modifications. Plus, you can go a long time (up to a year!) driving a demonstrably unsafe vehicle before needing to get re-inspected.

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@shawngettler I agree. While law enforcement's role in road safety is questionable at best (and counterproductive in most cases). if a driver is pulled over for an unsafe vehicle, then by definition that vehicle is not road worthy.

The flip side though is that we've designed a system in which many people are forced to drive, even if they cannot afford safe vehicles.

I'd like a system that catches (& fixes) vehicles before they get a chance to be unsafe.

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@shawngettler I agree. While law enforcement's role in road safety is questionable at best (and counterproductive in most cases). if a driver is pulled over for an unsafe vehicle, then by definition that vehicle is not road worthy.

The flip side though is that we've designed a system in which many people are forced to drive, even if they cannot afford safe vehicles.

I'd like a system that catches (& fixes) vehicles before they get a chance to be unsafe.

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@davidzipper
edited the original toot until someone weighs in to support my claim (which I swear I've known to be true in the past but can't find info on it right now)

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@davidzipper
edited the original toot until someone weighs in to support my claim (which I swear I've known to be true in the past but can't find info on it right now)

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@danbrotherston I alternate between being hopeful and looking for a bunker to move into.

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@danbrotherston I alternate between being hopeful and looking for a bunker to move into.

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@danbrotherston a hell of a long road. But culture is changing. Slowly, but it's changing.

OTOH, I do worry that the 'cameras in lieu of actual visibility' response is a calculated approach by automakers to soften us up to fully automated driving, lightyears before the tech is good enough.

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@danbrotherston a hell of a long road. But culture is changing. Slowly, but it's changing.

OTOH, I do worry that the 'cameras in lieu of actual visibility' response is a calculated approach by automakers to soften us up to fully automated driving, lightyears before the tech is good enough.

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@davidzipper wikipedia kind of gets at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_ of_Fitness

But I'd be interested for people elsewhere to weigh in, #NewZealand and elsewhere

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@davidzipper wikipedia kind of gets at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_ of_Fitness

But I'd be interested for people elsewhere to weigh in, #NewZealand and elsewhere

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@davidzipper NZ's Warrant of Fitness inspection is the example that comes to mind. And TBH now I think about it, I don't know for sure that it applies to crashes, but it definitely applies to modifications.
It's more stringent than the standard US inspection (which I know from first-hand experience) but that's hard to tell from NZTA's website:
https://www. nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/warrants-and-certificates/warrant-of-fitness/

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@davidzipper NZ's Warrant of Fitness inspection is the example that comes to mind. And TBH now I think about it, I don't know for sure that it applies to crashes, but it definitely applies to modifications.
It's more stringent than the standard US inspection (which I know from first-hand experience) but that's hard to tell from NZTA's website:
https://www. nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/warrants-and-certificates/warrant-of-fitness/

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This is weighing heavily on my mind right now as my 18yo neighbor, whose car has clearly been involved in a crash recently, is heading out for a drive.

Get that shit towed to an inspection station.

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This is weighing heavily on my mind right now as my 18yo neighbor, whose car has clearly been involved in a crash recently, is heading out for a drive.

Get that shit towed to an inspection station.

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I attempted to make this same point on the birdsite and the ensuing hate mail led me to lock down my tweets. 🙄

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I attempted to make this same point on the birdsite and the ensuing hate mail led me to lock down my tweets. 🙄

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Some #Parade organizers are requiring safety inspections for all vehicles pulling floats in parades in the aftermath of a fatal crash in a parade last week.

It's a good step, but we need to go farther: any time a motor vehicle is modified from factory specs, it needs to be re-inspected. This includes intentional mods (e.g., lift kits) & unintended ones (crashes).

The stakes are simply too high to have compromised vehicles on the road (edited).

https://www. wunc.org/news/2022-11-23/local-holiday-parades-adopt-new-safety-rules-after-raleigh-tragedy

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Some #Parade organizers are requiring safety inspections for all vehicles pulling floats in parades in the aftermath of a fatal crash in a parade last week.

It's a good step, but we need to go farther: any time a motor vehicle is modified from factory specs, it needs to be re-inspected. This includes intentional mods (e.g., lift kits) & unintended ones (crashes).

The stakes are simply too high to have compromised vehicles on the road (edited).

https://www. wunc.org/news/2022-11-23/local-holiday-parades-adopt-new-safety-rules-after-raleigh-tragedy

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@ahmedelgeneidy That's really good to know! Having only recently become an editor (aside from TRB, which doesn't count), I've not had much experience yet on the receiving end!

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@ahmedelgeneidy That's really good to know! Having only recently become an editor (aside from TRB, which doesn't count), I've not had much experience yet on the receiving end!

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@ahmedelgeneidy I appreciate this, and am wondering if that's what I should have done. I'm also somewhat terrified of being #Reviewer2 (despite the fact that some papers deserve it), esp. in a field other than my own.
I'm hopeful that my *very* critical response to the editor gives them pause, but that may be too rosy a hope.

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@ahmedelgeneidy I appreciate this, and am wondering if that's what I should have done. I'm also somewhat terrified of being #Reviewer2 (despite the fact that some papers deserve it), esp. in a field other than my own.
I'm hopeful that my *very* critical response to the editor gives them pause, but that may be too rosy a hope.

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This is a situation I find myself running into more and more lately. #RoadSafety is a topic that spans so many fields -- that's the nature of complex systems! -- and so many journals tend to be very specific. This journal was in a field that is very important to road safety, but very different from my own. I'm not at all sure how to navigate requests like these.

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This is a situation I find myself running into more and more lately. #RoadSafety is a topic that spans so many fields -- that's the nature of complex systems! -- and so many journals tend to be very specific. This journal was in a field that is very important to road safety, but very different from my own. I'm not at all sure how to navigate requests like these.

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A first for me (WWJD?): I declined a #PeerReview request b/c I fundamentally & vehemently disagree with the authors' basic premise. I explained to the editor that b/c I firmly believe the premise is deeply flawed (i.e., dead wrong), I would not be able to provide a constructive review.
The paper was on a trans-disciplinary topic, submitted to a journal in a different field than my own. My field would have desk rejected it (I hope).
#AcademicTooter, is this the right move?

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A first for me (WWJD?): I declined a #PeerReview request b/c I fundamentally & vehemently disagree with the authors' basic premise. I explained to the editor that b/c I firmly believe the premise is deeply flawed (i.e., dead wrong), I would not be able to provide a constructive review.
The paper was on a trans-disciplinary topic, submitted to a journal in a different field than my own. My field would have desk rejected it (I hope).
#AcademicTooter, is this the right move?

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@Sheril Horrifying!
And these sort of arbitrary discriminatory dress policies are still playing out today -- school dress codes routinely force Black children in the US to conform to white norms on appearance, with drastic punishments on those who do not comply. We have not come far as a society at all.

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@Sheril Horrifying!
And these sort of arbitrary discriminatory dress policies are still playing out today -- school dress codes routinely force Black children in the US to conform to white norms on appearance, with drastic punishments on those who do not comply. We have not come far as a society at all.