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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.
Somehow I feel like "putting highly explosive canisters all around a car" is not the best example for why regulation is bad.
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