America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient

Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:21PM (#14371205)

Yes, and of course they will do from the comfort and safety of a confinement bubble such as seen in the Matrix... because absolute safety trumps all.

I sure hope I don't live long enough to see a world full of people scared shitless at moving at 80 mph on a road designed for that; and I quite would like to live some time, too.

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by derefr on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:39PM (#14371337)

I'm not scared of moving at 80 mph; I'm scared of what arbitrary human beings can do (by accident or on purpose) with their vehicle, in the opposite lane of non-divided highways, when we have 160 mph of relative velocity (i.e. ~100k newton-seconds of impulse on impact, assuming 2tn vehicles.)

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