from an engineering perspective, it is hard to design a car that can safely travel at 60 mph and accelerate to that speed in a timely fashion without giving it

from an engineering perspective, it is hard to design a car that can safely travel at 60 mph and accelerate to that speed in a timely fashion without giving it the ability to go much faster. a car with a drag-limited top speed of 60 mph would become a road hazard any time it merged onto a freeway. it's possible to program a car to cut the throttle when it hits a certain speed, but most people take a dim view of having objects that they own be programmed to disobey them. would you like to use an OS that prevents you from installing any software that could enable illicit activity?