Honestly, I bet the roads would be safer today if anyone who made traffic regulations had never driven. As it stands I think rules and design are mainly for driver convenience rather than general safety.
absolutely, crossings should not exist, all streets should just inherently be safe to cross everywhere and and at roads you should always have grade separation.
No
A hero even before this time.
What a dickhead
He didn’t invent the roundabout. It was Eugene Henard in France about 30 years prior. He also didn’t invent the stop sign (Harry Jackson). There were also one way streets in England before the US existed.
I don’t think the phrase “today I learned” implies truth. OP just learned lies today. /s
The comments section always lit with the actual truth
But you see he reinvented those things in “the US” and thats where the truth is decided amiright?
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Reading the Wikipedia it looks like it’s not about the inventions of the individual things, but he utilized them together and potentially further optimized them (round about from 2 lanes to 1 to reduce accidents) and established a rulebook that officers should enforce and the public are expected to know and follow.
I came here, furious, to say all this. What the hell am I supposed to do with all this energy now?
Paces angrily
I was curious about the claims about Eno so I Googled a bit. Eno actually is responsible for a lot of these ideas being put in use, if not inventing them himself. He basically pioneered the concept of standardized traffic rules.
As for the stop sign, Eno proposed the idea in 1900:
Harry Jackson created his octagonal sign 14 years later, in 1914:
The invention of the roundabout is a bit more complicated. Circular intersections of some kind predated Eno, but they wouldn’t all be considered roundabouts by our definition today.
You could word it that way, or you could say: man who was driven everywhere by a chauffeur formalized the taking over of shared pedestrian spaces to car only spaces.
Also I have yet to learn of a member of the skull and bones society that was a good person.