MANY more sports fans have been injured or killed by being crushed up against barriers around playing fields that by objects leaving those fields and entering the stands. It would be good if the new net had a "breakaway" design so that it would yield to a push of several humans.
This doesn't make any sense. The nets mitigate the risk of fans being injured or killed by foul balls or bats. Your reluctance to let your loved ones sit in those seats is exactly why MLB has decided to put nets in front of them.
You ought to think about why improving car safety makes you so upset.
Of the literally thousands of ways engineers could improve car safety, they chose to develop a system that prevents people
So engineers passed up thousands of other ways to improve car safety, just to focus on the one that unfortunately fails to punish dumb people for being dumb, because nanny state and get of staz' lawn?
No, Emergency Brake Assist is a response to the rising prevalence of distracted driving. This same lack of personal responsibility at the ballpark is the reason the Fenway's best seats are now shrouded by nets. It's really not that difficult to understand.
The idea of the Rugged Individualist 'Murican building the cabin he was born in with his own hands, boldly facing all danger with his Dan'l Boone bowie knife in his teeth, and shrugging aside slings and arrows with his Captin 'Murica shield is very easy to understand, I agree.
FFS, shrouded? You mean, by definition: cover or envelop so as to conceal from view Yeah, they put up an opaque sheet all around home plate.
Except, there is also someone being victimized by the distracted driver. In your argument, the victim bears a level of responsibility for being in the way of the distracted driver. I guess the engineering solution is for the car to shoot a dart into the driver whenever the EBA is forced to engage. That way they assume a consequence for their lack of personal responsibility while sparing a victim.
Do we actually know for sure that distracted driving is a new and serious problem? There certainly hasn't been an increase in the rate of traffic deaths since the introduction of cell phones, or even smart phones for that matter. Automobile manufacturers add safety features to cars not as a response to increasing levels of irresponsibility, but because operating heavy steel objects moving at high speeds is inherently dangerous.
You mean for you, personally. Because I've sat behind the plate several times and I can't stand it. The net distracts me the whole time. So much so that I wouldn't even take free tickets in row 1 behind home.
Then why'd you do it more than once? It sounds like a horrible horrible experience.
Welcome back Kilgore!
You must have awful eyesight. How about getting that checked out. Most normal people don't have that problem.
Serious problem, no. Dangerous epidemic, yes:
Yeah, but it enables a car to stop more effectively when the driver wants it stop, so fuck that noise.
I watched Shaq crush a few people during his Magic days, and the NBA seats are even closer now. He was a 300-pound flying wall of pain.
This one was, right between the eyes about 5 weeks after the woman who was hit by the broken bat. She says she saw the ball coming and couldn't react. Her SIL is a coworker of mine and recounted the story to me last summer, confirming the same. I look at that photo and marvel at the fact that she is still alive.
What? They're not playing baseball anymore at baseball games?
You fail to recognize why the screen is part of the dugout in the first place, but this is perhaps one of the most ridiculous arguments in this thread that has nothing to do with anything involved in the reasoning behind having either net.
I somehow didn't get paywall blocked.
