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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by falcolas on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:25PM (#38268233)
Or it may anger them into jumping a curb to explicitly hit you.

Road rage due to damage to their pavement princesses is deadly when your in a cage of steel.

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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by ta1243 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:30PM (#38268316)
Victim blaming.

If a driver can be goaded into murder, perhaps they shouldn't have the tools to commit that murder so easily.

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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by maerF0x0 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:40PM (#38268476)
But we live in the kinds of society where a person has rights until they prove they shouldn't. Not the potential, but the actuality. Now I think the middle ground might be better enforcement of near misses... "No harm no foul" needs to be removed from the mindset of traffic cops.
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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by potatolicious on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:39PM (#38268460)
I don't read that comment as victim blaming at all, it's just a statement of our sad reality: it's de facto legal to murder someone in a car so long as you're not inebriated and you stay at the scene and plead your innocence.

As a general rule I go out of my way to not piss off drivers, not because I think they're in the right, but because they can murder me with impunity and they know it.

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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by falcolas on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:19PM (#38269094)
> Victim blaming.

A rock thrown at a vehicle moving at speed can be (and has been) charged as attempted first degree murder. There are not really any victims in this scenario.

https://jalopnik.com/blood-brothers-kill-woman-after-throwin...

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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by ta1243 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:38AM (#38274917)
An armed society is a polite society

The driver of the vehicle (vehicles cause a dozen 9/11s worth of deaths a year) is armed. Only person that can stop a bad guy with a vehicle is a good guy with a rock.

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