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Originally Posted by Trex
Let's pretend that it's a new invention and the inventor is trying to make the pitch for it to be adopted. "Well, in return for your accepting 100,000 deaths a year from collisions and untold numbers more from respiratory disease, turning thousands of square miles of productive famrland into paved desert and skewing our economy in favour of people who really don't like us, you'll get individual convenience." Like that would sell.
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Well compared to the pre automobile era of 100,000 deaths a year from train accidents, extensive pollution from coal run locomotives, and rail road tracks slicing through the countryside, the automobile might not be viewed as negatively as you may think.