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Somehow I feel like "putting highly explosive canisters all around a car" is not the best example for why regulation is bad.
No, that's the mind of a person speaking that is thinking of the motorcycle standing at the traffic light just behind this car. Action, reaction, that sort of thing.
Not like those genius Elon and American minds thinking "oh yeh rocket engines on cars makes a lot of sense", you're saying?
The very first cars required to have a person walking in front of it with waving a flag as a warning.
Funnily enough, he was also the first person to get a driver's license IIRC.
>So many things that were invented in Europe couldn’t be invented today
Like leaded gazoline, whose effects can still be seen presently...
> That’s the European mind speaking.
No. That's the road safety mind speaking.
How long is the US going to allow a car able to jump over Hostile Vehicle Mitigation barriers?
> That’s the European mind speaking.
Swipes are not allowed on HN, and comments that invoke national/regional/cultural stereotypes are particularly out of line here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html