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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by burlesona on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:34PM (#24603278)
This is actually not true, the speeding cars are at least equally a street design failure.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/1/8/new-20-mph-stre...

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by Igelau on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:19PM (#24603456)
Yeah that "safer street" is still going to get hit at 50 miles an hour by a lot of people.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by kennywinker on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:45PM (#24603317)
Instead of redesigning ALL of our streets to trick drivers to slow down, we could just IDK, slow the cars down? Seems simpler to me tbh.
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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by giancarlostoro on Sunday September 27, 2020 @06:48AM (#24605702)
And now you either have to convince everyone to change their cars or their engines in their cars. These things will not go over well with those in poverty.
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