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They think protecting drivers cars from scratches is more important than protecting pedestrians from getting hit, so they make the sidewalk part of the "clear zone"

Physical design is not neutral.

Physical design is an expression of our values.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

nope.

Une glissière de sécurité, parfois appelée « rail de sécurité » ou « garde-fou » (ou encore « bertrame » en Suisse), est une barrière métallique, en béton, ou en bois, disposée le long d'une voie de circulation routière pour amoindrir la gravité des accidents, en évitant notamment les sorties de route.

garde-fou in french is a more interesting name than "guide rail".

A guide rail is a system designed to guide vehicles back to the roadway and away from potentially hazardous situations. There is no legal distinction between a guide rail and a guard rail. According to the US Federal Highway Administration, the terms guardrail and guiderail are synonymous.

Several types of roadway guide rail exist; all are engineered to guide vehicular traffic on roads or bridges. Such systems include W-beam, box beam, cable, and concrete barrier. Each system is intended to guide vehicles back onto the road as opposed to guard them from going off the road into potential danger.

Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, in Britain as crash barriers, and in auto racing as Armco barriers) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains, or from traversing steep (non-recoverable) slopes or entering deep water. They are also installed within medians of divided highways to prevent errant vehicles from entering the opposing carriageway of traffic and help to reduce head-on collisions. Some of these barriers, designed to be struck from either side, are called median barriers. Traffic barriers can also be used to protect vulnerable areas like school yards, pedestrian zones, and fuel tanks from errant vehicles. In pedestrian zones, like school yards, they also prevent children or other pedestrians from running onto the road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_barrier

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

garde-fou in french is a more interesting name than "guide rail".

How would you translate to English? The Dutch word for guard rail translates to catch-rail, because it catches you before you fall.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

mad-guard?

craze-keeper 😁

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dear reader, permit me to introduce you to the concept of Irony.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Your post wasn't Irony, it was sarcasm.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you've managed to look up the definition and STILL don't understand. That's pretty amazing on your part.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was not having a go at the OP, and was providing a "wrong" answer, irony, not sarcasm, related, but not the same.

Sarcasm would be me having a go at your attempts at teaching me how to use English, which I won't, since I'm not upset with you, just bemused at your assertions.

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

See now you're getting it. Your post just now...

Irony.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how do you differentiate the two? (i thought it was neither, but i'm honestly curious about your reasoning

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Because sarcasm in this case pointedly gets it wrong. It does so on purpose to convey absurdity (generally as a reply to something which the poster thinks is as equally absurd as their own statement)

The rail is definitely not put there to protect the trees, and then the absurdity of it is expounded upon by adding the zoo statement.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

irony is difficult to convey online (stupidity being omnipresent, it's on you to make it clearer

ps
i'm not familiar with zoos