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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2198 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona

Arizona is its own hell. The majority of the populated areas was laid out post-WWII when air conditioning was a given and cars were fully enclosed. As such, it's the goddamn surface of the moon from a pedestrian perspective.

And they're super big on their shitty freeway concrete. Swear to god, nobody gives as much of a fuck what the pattern on a goddamn overpass is as the fucking Arizonians. I guess it's because the urban landscape is an undifferentiated hellscape of brown boxes and branding.

Seen Rollerball?

Imagine that as an urban design ethos and you have Arizona.