I think lot of people here are going to disagree with me but seems to me there's a case for putting limiters on cars.
Drivers sometimes hit other vehicles. Airbags go a long way here. Sadly, drivers will often hit less fortunate road users such as pedestrians and cyclists.
We already know that pedestrians hit at 30 km/h vs. 50 km/h stand a much better chance to survive. Sadly, cities are rarely designed for 30, and usually more 50+, depending on the city.
Changing cities is, well, possible, but also kind of difficult and unpopular. You know what's easier? Making car manufacturers limit cars' speeds in cities.
It's not technologically difficult. Lots of new cars already read speed signs. Almost all of them have some sort of GPS component.
Geofencing speed limits seems like a pretty easy fix compared to the infrastructure changes of traffic calming (which we should do anyway). You can make it opt-out (and non-trivial enough to do so) so that most new cars on the road have these limits at least in cities.
Does this sound crazy? I'd argue it isn't. Consider that E-bikes/E-scooters are limited to 25km/h in a lot of countries. Similar story with small 50cc scooters. In some places rental E-scooters even have geofenced speed limits already, and the Netherlands is considering a similar plan for E-bikes (ones owned by ordinary citizens).
While this is theoretically a good idea, in practice there's a lot of hard questions without good answers.
Where does a city begin? End?
Should we cover the suburbs with the geofence?
What about the beltways or highways that go through the city?
In big cities, GPS is spotty or completely unavailable, what do we do there?
What about city streets which pass under/over highways?
As I've pointed out in other replies, there isn't a good enough, when forcing cars to slow down significantly. Road conditions and surrounding traffic speeds make any unexpected slowdowns ripe for creating accidents.
I don't know where you live but city limits are very clearly defined in many places. Here for example, there are clear designations (that are reflected in a default speed limit too).
I don't quite know what your (American?) suburbs look like, but in theory I don't see why not in this instance.
And if you're concerned about, idk, people not being able to get to the hospital on time or what have you, make them opt-out on every single ignition. Most people will probably not be bothered to opt-out every single time.
As for the technical points regarding GPS, lots of cars already read speed signs and come with various computer vision based safety features.
Again, ebikes and escooters are already speed limited and geofenced. It's not perfect, but why aren't we so concerned about ebikes being slow and not being able to keep up with cars and subsequently be hit by them?
Lastly - it doesn't have to come into full effect if you're at 120km/h. You can be smart about it, like not slowing you down but not letting you accelerate, easing you into the speed limit etc.
There's a perception that cars are a fact of life and it's OK for them to be traveling at speed in cities, whereas the reality is that in most urban areas we simply cannot afford to keep this up any longer.
...higher salaries in one place tend to pull up salaries elsewhere too. And conversely, if you push down the top, you also push down the middle (under the optimistic assumption that the bottom can't go any further down...).
Also, it's easy for other industries to then justify with: "hey, even Google is doing it, and they were they guys supposed to 'do not evil', amirite?".
That's the problem with unethical behavior, we're all into copying and generalizing stuff :|
Indeed- I thank the FANGs everyday for pulling up my salary. In 2013 I was making about 1/3 what I am now in the financial industry in NYC doing algo trading/HFT. I was reluctant, but after years of seeming to miss out on the big money that everyone talked about finance people making, I finally just decided to look outside the industry. I got a remote job with a company in the valley, and got a 60% increase in comp, that after 3 years grew to just a hair shy of 100%. I was pretty much the first defector to leave finance for tech in my circles, but more followed. I jumped around one more time, with a financial company who truly pays top tier salaries (to match tech companies), and am now making a full 3x what I was just a bit over 5.5 years ago, with a much better work life balance and general work environment.
I can't imagine this would have happened without Goog/FB/Apple/Netfix, etc. Every day I reap the benefits of their competition for talent without having worked at any of them.
It’s happens a lot more than it’s talked about. When a few people left the company I worked at for Rackspace who was paying a lot more the CEO of my company talked with Rackspace into agreeing to stop interviewing people from my company. I moved on from that company after the CEO admitted to the agreement.
It’s a practice older than IT. Hard to judge the man on that alone.
This is going to be more or less my strategy when I ask (rather soon). I do love working where I am. The only problem is that other offers are starting to come in, and I know that they'll be offering a lot more money. :(
It depends on what you're doing, but I'm here to tell you that unless you're doing Visual Design, you can live without Sketch altogether.
Where I'm employed at the moment we use Sketch for Visual Design. For pretty much all stages before that, we use Google Slides - this includes everything, from information architecture, through UX, sometimes right up until the point where we really should be asking some hard Visual Design questions.
If your primary concern is UX or prototyping - you can do it with pen and paper just as well. To be honest, I generally find that it's best to start lo-fi. Sketch invites you to try to make your wireframes pixel perfect, which you probably don't want. Sketch also entices you to start using symbols which can lock down your designs too early. Slides will not draw you into selecting fonts, or dealing with exactly what color you want to use.
So, if your goal is to do wireframing, my tip is to go lo-fi.
However, for VD, I'm not sure you can do better than Sketch at the moment... It is a sad reality. I would have seriously considered ditching macOS for a GNU/Linux alternative if it had been possible for me.
Drivers sometimes hit other vehicles. Airbags go a long way here. Sadly, drivers will often hit less fortunate road users such as pedestrians and cyclists.
We already know that pedestrians hit at 30 km/h vs. 50 km/h stand a much better chance to survive. Sadly, cities are rarely designed for 30, and usually more 50+, depending on the city.
Changing cities is, well, possible, but also kind of difficult and unpopular. You know what's easier? Making car manufacturers limit cars' speeds in cities.
It's not technologically difficult. Lots of new cars already read speed signs. Almost all of them have some sort of GPS component.
Geofencing speed limits seems like a pretty easy fix compared to the infrastructure changes of traffic calming (which we should do anyway). You can make it opt-out (and non-trivial enough to do so) so that most new cars on the road have these limits at least in cities.
Does this sound crazy? I'd argue it isn't. Consider that E-bikes/E-scooters are limited to 25km/h in a lot of countries. Similar story with small 50cc scooters. In some places rental E-scooters even have geofenced speed limits already, and the Netherlands is considering a similar plan for E-bikes (ones owned by ordinary citizens).