Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
by ls612 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:23PM
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Because I see technology as a being used as a means to social control and authoritarian rule. Most HN commenters are perfectly willing to see this as well when it comes to DRM, remote attestation, secure boot, etc, but magically forget that when discussion of traffic and cars comes up.
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
by piva00 on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:27AM
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It's not authoritarian rule and social control to limit the speed of death machines inside a dense city. I don't want fast cars in my city, I don't want the noise, the fatalities or injuries, nor the pollution.
Cars are a privilege, you need a licence from the government to drive them, are you going to advocate for removing driver licencing as well? Because that's pretty much full government control over who can drive or not. Pretty authoritarian, no?