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Power for power’s sake is not necessarily a good thing.

There is some indication that putting rapidly accelerating cars on streets is leading to a proliferation of accidents.

A car with a 4 second 0-60 time can reach 40mph, a speed lethal to 80% of pedestrians, in under 80 feet from a standstill. That's the distance from the limit line to the far crosswalk when crossing a 5 lane road.

Putting this level of performance (and better) into boring suburban SUVs bought by ambivalent consumers is negligence.

For sure; the US kills literally hundreds of thousands of people in ways other countries have solved, and bigger faster vehicles seems at odds with the lack of driver and infrastructure responsibility here. I don't want to make light of that.

I just had the numbers run to check this. About 650,000 fewer people would have died over my short life so far, if the US had the vehicle fatality rate of my home country.

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