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by varajelle 1440 days ago
Well, this is like with all slippery slope argument. First they set the speed limit to 70, then to 50, then to 20, then you can't drive at all. So better not let them set any limit?

What this is is just adapting an already extremely regulated field to the new technologies.

Road safety and regulations has massively improved the safety of cars in the last few decades, therefore saving many lives. And yet, car driving is still one of the most dangerous method of transport, causing countless of fatalities every year.

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Especially with the earth's population being what it is, and if you want to believe in climate change too, maybe those fatalities are still too low...

Speed limits have always had a discretionary factor in them. A freedom of human judgment, if you will.

And indeed not being able to drive at all seems like it would fit in with the whole green globalist agenda anyway, so the slope is definitely slippery.

Edit: downvoting won't hide the truth, bootlickers.