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#Helsinki achieved zero road deaths in a year—without autonomous vehicles on its streets. They did it through road diets, car-free zones, and 30 km/h speed limits. Not by flooding the streets with robotaxis. (Waymo isn't allowed in #Finland.) To really save lives... 🧵

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...you have to limit car access to cities, not add hundreds of dead-heading AVs to the streets. #Oslo also achieved the Vision Zero goal of no deaths, without AVs on its streets. Both cities offer excellent public transit as an alternative to cars.

Speed limit reductions are a key here, and Toronto has done the same in the core which is great...except every one still does 45 in 30 zones. There have been three pedestrians killed by drivers in the last week in Toronto.