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A pickup or SUV isn’t needed to stay safe - especially not when all other cars are compact. This reasoning reminds me of the tragedy of the commons.
by corv 8y ago
A pickup or SUV isn’t needed to stay safe - especially not when all other cars are compact.
This reasoning reminds me of the tragedy of the commons.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThis is totally tragedy of the commons reasoning. There exist big cars on the road, so I need a bigger one to protect myself against them. I'm half-surprised that no one is selling civilian-use APCs at this point.
- mmirate 8y agoPfft. I couldn't weave, pass and lanechange through the usual shitty traffic if my vehicle was that unmaneuverable.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIsn't the traffic shitty (and dangerous) precisely because of the occasional people "weaving, passing and lanechanging" like crazy?
- mmirate 8y agoWhen I make a right-hand turn onto the far-right lane of a divided highway with four lanes in my direction, and over the next three blocks, three lanes become right-turn-only (gradually narrowing the road down to one lane) but I need to not make any of those right turns? You bet I need some fancy footwork to avoid being forcibly detoured. And you bet that once I'm in the correct lane, I make a point of emulating the people far in front of me, by almost-tailgating the person directly in front of me.
- mmirate 8y agoIn such a tragedy, any one person's most logical action is to obtain as much of the price-controlled commodity as possible, before the price returns to normal.