Srsly though imagine if governments treated climate change with anything like the same seriousness as they're treating covid19
Won't happen. Climate change consequences are diffused, same as with deaths from car accidents and cardiovascular diseases. People are unable to perceive such risks seriously. In case of Covid-19 politicians and businesses are concerned of short-term and mid-term losses which are quite likely. In case of climate change losses are long-term and uncertain, and they believe they have "emergency measures" at hand if things really go south.
@kravietz @lazarski cars are designed for safety much more than they used to, however, that progress was made a bunch of decades ago.. Ralph Nader is often credited as a prominent person in this.
Also designs of the roads in the US at least, not sure. (In the Netherlands there are lots of speedbumps, bicycle lanes etc)
it took around 30 years for both safety and pollution reducing "eco" features to be deployed worldwide in an affordable car (eg: that a young person might have get for their first car).
I noticed this myself as in my teens I tried (with little success) to learn to drive, then started again in 2018, getting my licence in 2019; and my car has so many more of these features than a similar VW Polo would have had in 1989/1990...
