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by pbourke 2798 days ago
> The reality is that very few people want to live in that world

I suppose I'm in the minority, but I would love to live in a world with fewer impaired drivers and senseless motor vehicle accidents.

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Thought further this might lead to a prohibition of manually driven cars and a use of only self-driving cars (talking about the future here).

As allways it boils down to freedom vs. security.

I think, as long as we all live under the same jurisdiction the only way is to find a balance between the more risk averse and the more risk taking people.

We wont find a compromise everyone is happy with, but one that does kind of work for everyone. Not enforcing laws as strictly might calm the moods a little bit where the law goes to far for some.

>As always it boils down to freedom vs. security.

No it doesn't. Often you give up 10 freedoms for .01 of anything else.

speed limits and impaired drivers are orthogonal concepts
What I hear is an intentionally cheesy argument against a set of cherry-picked claims that are not even in the original comment.