Since it's come up on other platforms again, here's your semi-annual reminder that the term "Vulnerable Road User," or , is a catchall for "humans not safely ensconsed inside a motor vehicle," and it's lazy, inaccurate, offensive, and counterproductive.

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@DrTCombs I prefer to talk about "dangerous road users" - referring to car drivers. That way folks might look at solving the 'danger' part, not the 'vulnerable' part. Might lead to better solutions. The whole hierarchy of hazard control thing.

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@uire yep. that's a good one.

remove the danger, don't try to adapt the vulnerable person to the danger (which DOTs love to try do with fun things like giant chain link fences and 'shared responsibility' campaigns and proposals to outfit pedestrians with bluetooth beacons)

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