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The tech is interesting, granted. And I find the overall idea of it quite beguiling from an outlaw/risky/renegade POV. But I can't help but feel it's still massively irresponsible from both a public safety and environmental perspective.

It's one thing to drive your car into a tree in the middle of nowhere at 120mph, quite another if you drive it into someone else obeying the speed limit and going about their day.

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Rolling eyes. Going insanely fast sustained > 100mph and putting other peope's life in danger I agree with. The drive being a detectable impact on the environment I'm suspect.

That's the tricky thing about the environment - nothing we do individually has a detectable impact on the environment. And yet all of us doing it has a massive impact. So maybe the best is to just try to be a good person and not pollute unnecessarily

It's a completely needless long journey, in an uneconomical vehicle. The impact of one single person may be negligible but it's precisely this sort of collective tragedy of the commons approach that is proving problematic in regards pollution.

Agreed. Well, presumably they're going to be arrested soon.

I'm pretty sure they would be in the UK. There have been convictions where idiots took pictures of their speedo then posted them on social media.

Some of these guys post the footage years after it's completed to try and avoid prosecution.

Statute of limitations is a year; the run happened more than a year ago and they delay in publishing exactly for this reason.

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