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Re:Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine by CalRobert on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:00PM (#26526367)
In the US, you are de facto allowed to kill people with your vehicle, so long as you're sober.

If you shoot a kid you probably can't get away with "well I was duck hunting at the playground, it was an accident!", but run them down in your truck and you'll have a sympathetic judge telling you this shouldn't stop you from getting back behind the wheel, and how the kid shouldn't have been there.

Re:Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine by mandelbrotwurst on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:59PM (#26527785)
This is a bad comparison. "Duck hunting at the playground" is more similar to driving your truck through a playground than it is to hitting a pedestrian who enters a roadway full of active traffic.

Why should it be the driver's fault if someone else puts them in a situation where a negative outcome is unavoidable?

Re:Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine by CalRobert on Sunday March 21, 2021 @04:34AM (#26528994)
Because playing in the street used to be normal - so normal it was taken as a given, and drivers stole that.
Re:Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine by Symbiote on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:35PM (#26527928)
Because the vehicle driver raised the danger.

An adult man running carelessly through the playground is not a significant risk.

Re:Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine by bredren on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:16PM (#26526446)
Run away / spooked carriage horses that trampled were treated in a similar way.