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Replace seat belts with piano wire and make air bags with 50x the explosive charge but replace the airbag with ball bearings.
Ford pinto
Funny thing about the Pinto....most US cars were made with that gas tank design and the Pinto had about the same number of fires from rear collision.
Yup pinto accounted for almost 2% of cars on the road and just about 2% of fatalities due to fire. Plus it has a way smaller death rate per car due to fire than the cyber truck. Sold over 3 million cars and there were 27 fire deaths. I think the cyber truck fire deaths are in the 5-10 range for roughly 20 thousand sold.
Ah yes the Tullock Spike
Exactly! Except I make Lemmy shitposts for shits and giggles and am not an "economics professor" who needs to be taken seriously and never gets invited to parties.
Why do you want millions of people to die? That's pretty weird.
Millions dead? Are you crazy? 3 months of my 2 point auto safety plan and everyone will drive very very carefully all the time! I'm SAVING LIVES!
Reads as rather blantant satire to me. Perhaps you're the weird one weirdy.
If we were on fuck cars that wouldn't be satire. Didnt realize we're on not the onion instead.
Natural selection has been removed. Now republicans are trying to reintroduce it.
They'll (mainly) be the ones affected. I say let it happen.
Then again, I don't like most people.
That wasn't what was proposed
The article is saying that one of the main things they are trying to axe is Automatic Emergency Braking requirements, and it links to a page with this video. The people in the biggest vehicles will be mostly fine I think, it's everyone else that's in trouble here.