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Amazing you can't even be safe from cars while you are sitting in your own damn house. A whole building can't protect you from cars.
Autopilot is idiotic and to blame for this, but cars have been driving through buildings while people are operating too. Lord knows at least a few times a year I see a building where one of the walls or large windows has a massive sheet of plywood and caution tape covering it because someone plowed their car through it.
There was also an incident in Canada in the last few years where a kid was run over and killed by a car while playing inside the building of his daycare. It came roaring through the window. The inside of a daycare is not safe from cars and that still blows my mind.
Maybe barriers would help some. Also building design that doesn't have enormous windows large enough a car can easily break through. Ultimately though cars are just so dangerous to everyone in general. More trains and accessibility that helps take away the need for cars would be the best solution.
Maybe we can replace the boring bluegrass lawns with boulders.
My parents used to have to periodically replace their mailbox because drivers kept running over it. That stopped when they put 2 foot tall boulder next to it.
I put a wall of stones across my front yard, in part becase it looks good, but also in part because there was a car crash in front of my house the first week that I lived here, and one of the cars demolished the neighbors' stone wall (and not their house).
My dad nearly died from an elderly man plowing through the wall of the 7/11 he was shopping at. A magazine rack that happened to be in the way managed to stop the car in time. Cars are dangerous enough, letting elderly folk pilot them around is even worse.
I've also been hit by an elderly person because they somehow didn't see me riding my scooter in front of them and tried turning right on a red light without looking both ways first.