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Well, except you know... every pedestrian (and possibly driver) in his neighborhood. I'm being half serious - this seems harmless enough, but where do you draw

Well, except you know... every pedestrian (and possibly driver) in his neighborhood. I'm being half serious - this seems harmless enough, but where do you draw the line? I'm all for the fun of reverse engineering but maybe keep that shit off public roads.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
I couldn't care less. People hacking up things are a rounding error compared to the rest of the motoring public. If your vehicle is capable of meeting the performance expectations of everyone else I don't care what you drive. If your horse and buggy, ebike conversion, etc. can do highway speed and get there within the distance of the merge lane then feel free to ride that crap on the interstate. Likewise I don't see why anyone should be disallowed from driving heavy equipment on slow city and residential streets where it can keep up.
- wkearney99 5y ago
  ah yes, the casual arrogance of treating other people's lives as just 'rounding errors'. The only fortunate part, I suppose, is the kind of personality disorder that thinks/acts that way is likewise a rounding error.
  - throwaway0a5e 5y ago
    >ah yes, the casual arrogance of treating other people's lives as just 'rounding errors'. >The only fortunate part, I suppose, is the kind of personality disorder that thinks/acts that way is likewise a rounding error. Oh take your hand wringing and shove it. How many man hours per capita per year are spent operating sketchy modified vehicles? How many man hours per capita per year are spent driving distracted, intoxicated etc? While they are not mutually exclusive the former is clearly a rounding error compared to the latter because the slice of the population that is even in a position to engage in it is minuscule compared to the broad mass market appeal of the latter. These people are no more of a concern to society than shark bites.
    - hodgesrm 5y ago
      Before taking any anatomically adverse actions, I would need a better argument than whataboutism. The fact that something is statistically less likely than other bad things does not make it good.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago

I couldn't care less. People hacking up things are a rounding error compared to the rest of the motoring public. If your vehicle is capable of meeting the performance expectations of everyone else I don't care what you drive. If your horse and buggy, ebike conversion, etc. can do highway speed and get there within the distance of the merge lane then feel free to ride that crap on the interstate. Likewise I don't see why anyone should be disallowed from driving heavy equipment on slow city and residential streets where it can keep up.

wkearney99 5y ago
ah yes, the casual arrogance of treating other people's lives as just 'rounding errors'. The only fortunate part, I suppose, is the kind of personality disorder that thinks/acts that way is likewise a rounding error.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  >ah yes, the casual arrogance of treating other people's lives as just 'rounding errors'. >The only fortunate part, I suppose, is the kind of personality disorder that thinks/acts that way is likewise a rounding error. Oh take your hand wringing and shove it. How many man hours per capita per year are spent operating sketchy modified vehicles? How many man hours per capita per year are spent driving distracted, intoxicated etc? While they are not mutually exclusive the former is clearly a rounding error compared to the latter because the slice of the population that is even in a position to engage in it is minuscule compared to the broad mass market appeal of the latter. These people are no more of a concern to society than shark bites.
  - hodgesrm 5y ago
    Before taking any anatomically adverse actions, I would need a better argument than whataboutism. The fact that something is statistically less likely than other bad things does not make it good.