Ireland parliament member says high-visibility jackets should be mandatory for all pedestrians

Fuck off, this is carbrained nonsense.

Cars should try to drive over people less - and the best way to do that is to have everyone (who owns one) hand in their hummers and pickups, in return for a smaller and saner car, or multiple bicycles.

Idea: reinstate the old law that required all cars to be preceded by a pedestrian carrying a large red warning flag. /hj

All cars should also be painted in high-visibility color (yellow/green and orange/red/pink) and car passengers should wear helmets for their protection.

I propose a deal: cars are completely banned in cities, and are prohibited to have any sound isolation so that the occupants must hear all the immense noise they produce drivers are more aware of their surroundings. Then I will happily wear a hi-vis when walking along a road in the middle of nowhere.

Seriously? How fucking stupid.

…….. satire, right ? Right ?

It's not Ireland but I was just recently in Guernsey and... cars would drive over the sidewalk constantly (without putting pedestrian at risks AFAICT). Plenty of roads (if not most) on the island had just 0 sidewalk, like none. The road itself would often not accommodate 2 cars passing each other.

In such context I can imagine that indeed high-vis jackets would somehow help... but damn, just don't make your entire country, or small island country-ish in my personal example, car-centric then you wouldn't have to ask pedestrians to be "visible" in order not to die.

Like hi vis would help!

There's been plenty of incidents where people have driven into police vehicles despite being covered in hi vis & reflective strips with their lights flashing

This is idiot crapshwaggle of course. However, I've driven a bunch of the back roads in Southern Ireland and honestly, I'm not sure what else would help. I mean, they spray paint the sheep hi-vis in some places.