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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by rootusrootus on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:01PM (#24603616)
> Step 1 is slow the vehicles down

I can't even imagine what that would do to traffic that is already pretty congested. Large swaths of suburban metros would just grind to a halt.

> 30k / year die in car accidents in the USA

Closer to 40K. Even then, that is compared with almost 3 million people who die for all reasons combined. It's actually sort of amazing how low the fatality rate is given just how much movement there is every day. One for every 100,000,000 miles driven. That's remarkable.

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by Thlom on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:25AM (#24604899)
Slower speeds means cars drive closer together which means throughput increases (to a point). I think around 60km/h is generally considered the speed which yields the biggest throughput of cars.
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