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Re:Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing dri... by petee on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:49PM (#37274487)
No we don't have to accept that. Experimentation belongs in a laboratory, and all these companies can afford to build private, controlled environments, they just don't want to spend the money.

The time to find out your car does not stop for emergency vehicles, is not during an emergency. Yet here we are

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Re:Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing dri... by grecy on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:58PM (#37278766)
> Experimentation belongs in a laboratory

How about all those new drivers hitting the road for the very first time? Are you suggesting we should banish them from public roads until they've got a few hundred hours under their belt?

How are they going to get freeway practice?

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