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No, there is no need for someone to go 80mph in a city and hit and kill someone else. Just as there is no need for 300kW engines and the like. That's not a trad
by stefan_ 5y ago
No, there is no need for someone to go 80mph in a city and hit and kill someone else. Just as there is no need for 300kW engines and the like. That's not a tradeoff with anything; we can very simply do without.
- mlyle 5y ago> there is no need for someone to go 80mph in a city and hit and kill someone else. Hyperbole is not awesome. I don't think anyone was advocating to go 80MPH in a city and to hit and kill someone else. I don't believe there's some bright line where going 25.001MPH is completely unsafe and reckless and 24.999MPH is completely OK. In the end, the limit is an arbitrary value providing a tradeoff between economics and safety, and people obey that particular exact value to avoid getting fined.