Lloyd Alter, design guy on Treehugger.com, surveys the terror truck landscape and sees it all about being a design problem:
So a solution to the problem of vehicular terrorism is the same solution that we have been proposing to reduce the number of deaths of pedestrians and cyclists all along: Make SUVs and trucks as safe as cars or get them off the road. It is a vehicle design problem. Or if you are going to still allow a more dangerous design of vehicle, give it a tougher licensing regime. Reduce their availability to those who actually need them and regulate the hell out of them.
I cannot agree, because the first rough patch in the road will be the drivers who will howl in protest on any limitations on their vehicles. First you have to deal with how the perception of absolute freedom is leading to advancing terrorism, both in terms of vehicles and in terms of guns.
And why did the guy in NYC end up waving around a paintgun, rather than some NRA special? I sure hope he – or someone – provides an answer to that one.
