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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by Angostura on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:18AM (#10689203)
There are huge numbers of laws in place to try and minimise road deaths, including compulsory licensing of people found competent to drive, speed limits, compulsory periodic testing of cars for roadworthiness. So you know the answer to the first part of your question.
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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by rwmj on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:22AM (#10689217)
Sure - but to really crack down on road deaths, how about declaring a state of emergency that prevents anyone from driving at all? If you understand why that would be stupid, you'll understand why trying to introduce the GFW of China to France is a bad idea.
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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by ikeboy on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:57AM (#10689399)
I think that would be a great idea as soon as autonomous cars are available for purchase.
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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by icebraining on Monday December 07, 2015 @11:40AM (#10690528)
I'd bet even autonomous cars will kill more per year than terrorist attacks.
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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by ikeboy on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:04PM (#10691238)
If we use global numbers, probably not.

>In 2014, 32,685 people were killed in terrorist attacks. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/global-terrorism-index...

The WHO puts global road traffic deaths at around 1 million, so if autonomous cars reduces that by a factor of 50, which seems likely, they'd kill less than terrorism.

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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by Kristine1975 on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:40AM (#10689300)
>There are huge numbers of laws in place to try and minimise road deaths,

4600 road deaths/year sounds like those laws should try harder.

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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by laichzeit0 on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:25AM (#10689232)
> There are huge numbers of laws in place to try and minimise road deaths, including compulsory licensing of people found competent to drive, speed limits, compulsory periodic testing of cars for roadworthiness.

Now if only we could apply the same rigour to the process of bringing new human beings into the world.

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