Well… at least he was actually driving. I would normally expect phrasing like “the SUV drove…” (independently and without any controlling driver as all cars involved in accidents do *cough*) nowadays.

And yet the shop owners will see this and then decide to just reject reality and still complain anyway about all those imaginary cars constantly stopping by to buy something.

Same as exactly everywhere else: conservatives have universally understood that they don’t have any solutions but don’t need them as culture-war brainrot and unfettered populism works much better anyway. So they now simultaneously fight every bit of progress ever made no matter if it’s in society, technology, infrastructure or whatever…

No, it’s literally just a bus that isn’t legally one. So they can get away without meeting basic requirements for a bus.

No, it’s an indirect deregulation thing. Private company “shuttles” that are only factually but not legally identical to busses don’t need to fullfill all normal requirements for operating a bus. Probably including liability that you passed on implicitly by using the app.

by factor of 3 obviously…

You wouldn’t believe the secondary costs caused by thawing salt. And then there’s the primary cost of operating vehicle park to spread a lot of salt each winter.

Although general streets would not be my first choice (you should start with bridges where corrosion is even more of an issue) every example of heated street I saw was just a matter of “yeah, simple math says this makes sense”.

PS: And that’s obviously not car-specific even. Every newly build bike lane should incorporate this idea. Modern bike and pedestrian bridges doubly so.

PPS: For reference: new bicycle-bridge in Germany… 16 million € to build, of which the added heating is a very small fraction (300k).