Save us Mamdani!

Good video but a terrible opening

"Technology" aka portable fence

Why the fuck are they giving exemptions to vehicles that are constantly on city roads?

why were people given religious covid exemptions

Because society caters to stupid people.

Obviously the exemptions for the vehicles was money.

I hate how we as a society keep catering to stupid people and companies when it comes to basic safety practices.

It sounds like it's something they can only require them on vehicles whose companies have contracts with the city. If true, I'd assume that the exempted trucks aren't hauling away city waste - maybe construction debris or something like that.

What a shitty law.

Excuse me, excuse me, but this is a clearly unscripted random interaction with a fellow probably human.

…yeah, it soured me on the rest as well, although it sounds like the idea itself is good. heh

A ban on trucks?

Only Billy Eichner is allowed to do that

https://youtu.be/QwL_pRzJuR4

Trucks will always be needed. Trains can't go everywhere.

Also, the passenger-train utopia we both want would require lighter-duty high-speed rail, which freight trains wouldn't be able to operate on

I thought you couldn't be right. Whelp.

... requires large vehicles in the City Fleet and in City contracted vehicles be equipped with safety enhancing side guards ...

https://rules.cityofnewyork.us/rule/side-guards-on-heavy-duty-trade-waste-vehicles/

not much the city can do about that - the state handles motor vehicle regulations.

Not boxcars, no. But up to the 50s we had electric rail in my area that handled panel-van kind of packages from station to station, via shipping cars hooked to the same train as passengers.

Then pneumatic tires and gasoline-powered buses got popular and they killed electric rail. We still haven't the reach, speed, or versatility as we had then, since buses need to fight traffic against cars.

I’ve never seen those guards in Finland, which is part of the E.U.

EU has a lot of fragmented (by country) road laws.

But guards/skirts are usually integrated into the design, not third-party add-ons.

Random examples:

Cringe ass advertisement.

Two types of people in the world: those who don't think about the need for this and those who spent time on liveleak.

there's no liveleak anymore. Literally tried it yesterday D:

I've heard some guy named Hagseth is bringing it back

A stone wheel is "technology".

I mean, yeah. A lot of innovations in safety is really just stupidly simple things that we learned the hard way (someone being hurt).

The stupid part however isn't how simple these things are, but rather how hard it is to get through even the most basic changes.

That looks clean

The dude's priority list at the end...

1. The poor truck driver (who was non-compliant)
2. The company's insurance
3. The person being killed by the truck

Toothless laws to let businesses save some money at the cost of people’s live

Makes sense. Dead people don't have tights, right? /s

Before I opened this and saw the video, I thought it was going to be an indicator light.

Expected a joke.

Discovered a tragedy.

Also a neat device.

NY, get your heads out of your asses and just do it. Get it done! 100% of trucks! Big fines for it not being there! Go!

Hell, this should just be all urban areas in the world.

Cringe ass safety psa

What product or service was it trying to sell to its audience?

Edit: I guess other countries have them

I've never seen guards like this either, but more importantly I've never seen the large gaps in the side that guides victims to fall beneath multiple wheels.

I suspect all the trucks I've seen in Europe left the factory compliant with the regulation, with no need to install side guards.

I thought it was fun.

Well I mean I'm guessing he's part of a union and needs to sell his soul a little bit to the, "one for all," spirit. I'm hoping when he's at home away from the union, he's more for the safety of all individuals than just the company he works for.

That question just might be answered by watching the posted content! But I don't blame you for not, this was a rough watch.

I got about 15 seconds in before the visceral disgust was too much to bear. I'd rather the answer be a mystery than listen to more fucking "TIL: I am about to preach to you" posters

I watched the entire video, and not just the first 15 seconds. I saw a journalist report how a law in New York City hasn't been properly implemented, leading to multiple unnecessary deaths a decade later.

I don't know how the fuck this isn't a federal law?

It is in EU, and in UK, and in Japan.

It's only third world nations, such as USA, that have such shoddy safety standards as this

Going from arguably the world's strongest superpower, to at least pejoratively a third world is so depressing.

All it takes is Conservatism!

Pejorative and Actually too

Third World under the strictest definition: Not in NATO or the Warsaw Pact (no longer exists, was a pact between USSR, China and some other random countries)

Oh snap.

I immediately think of a lot of old white guys scoffing at that and trying to rationalize why that doesn't actually matter, casually throwing away a single weapon that they previously used against others for their own benefit.

I opened Google Street View and "drove" along Mannerheimintie. Here are images of all trucks I found along the "drive":

...and then I figured I'd try some rednecky place, and the most redneck place I could pick from my hat was Kauhava (sorry, everyone in Kauhava). I figure that if in some place they drive trucks with illegal modifications, then that's there.

So, I went for truck hunt there as well, which turned out to be much more difficult than I thought! Anyway, here:

I am not able to find a truck in Finland that does not have those protecting devices installed. And I don't think I have ever seen one.