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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works to c/micromobility@lemmy.world

I wonder if retardedly ignoring design flaws is just a way to maintain sanity in a dangerously insane world, like immigrants who vote for Trump ignore that he's genocidally racist because acknowledging the truth is immensely disruptive emotionally.

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[-] Lumelore 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I was going to comment on your other post about how my car's rear view mirror is at eye level with me and causes a massive blind spot. Of course I just look around it, but humans are falliable creatures and all it takes is forgetting to look one time and BOOM someone's dead.

Why can't we design vehicles that minimize human mistakes? Really how hard is it to make a mirror with an adjustable height?

For some reason it seems a lot of people would rather get mad at someone pointing out a flawed design instead of the flawed design itself and it makes no sense.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm learning that our main problem as a species is we have an amazing ability to avoid acknowledging reality if doing so would makes us uncomfortable. In this case, I think many people would rather not acknowledge they may well be casually killed by a poorly designed transportation system that requires superhuman levels of awareness on the part of drivers.

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