I know that article is about your friend, so I’m trying to be sensitive here. The article says he was driving “80 to 100 mph in the 9000 block of Southwest Bar

I know that article is about your friend, so I’m trying to be sensitive here. The article says he was driving “80 to 100 mph in the 9000 block of Southwest Barbur Boulevard” in a Prius. This road has multiple stop lights, pedestrian crosswalks, and a speed limit of 40 mph. He crashed into a bus stop that could have had pedestrians. Assuming it was a new 2013 Prius, “going from 50 to 75mph takes a slow 8.3 seconds” (from an article about that car in 2013). So he was driving at least double the speed limit down a commercial corridor with a top speed of 40 mph, for an extended period of time (at least 20 seconds over the speed limit to hit 80 mph), with a car that was not designed to be driven that speed. He had no respect for the law, his safety, or the safety of others. You could say we need better laws (e.g. full self driving required) but he didn’t care about the laws then, and there will be outliers in the future won’t care about the FSD law and will override their cars to get on the road. For the next 30 years there will be millions of non-FSD cars mixed in with FSD, and then there will be classic cars. One could argue the road needs engineering changes to make the road so it’s impossible to drive faster than 40 mph, but how many ambulances or police vehicles use that road and need to go faster in true emergencies with the added safety of sirens and lights? And right now the road is engineered for a top speed for 40 mph. So the engineers put a speed limit of 40 mph. The vast majority of drivers on that road follow the speed limit (or close enough) to make 40 mph acceptable. Life doesn’t come with bumpers. Part of it is figuring out which things have lasting consequences and which things are reversible and recognizing the very real and often precipitous difference. Along the way we learn from others what the difference is, but it doesn’t mean we should necessarily make changes to the environment based on others’ mistakes. We can’t fill in the Grand Canyon because someone fell in. We can put up signs (speed limits) and guard rails in high risk areas, but can’t always re-engineer the environment. And even if it is re-engineered, someone will come along and exceed the engineering design of that environment. Maybe increased policing on that corridor would make sense to enforce the existing laws. This is Monday morning quarterbacking it 8 years later. I’m sorry for your loss. I’m sure he was a good guy. Sometimes people make mistakes and no matter how much one would like to say “if only it was designed differently” or “maybe we could prevent this in the future for someone else”, there’s a point that people need to be free to make the decisions and deal with the consequences. It doesn’t make it any less sad, disappointing, or frustrating to deal with.