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But that cost isn’t shouldered on the public, every driver is required to carry insurance and most people also have personal liability in addition to that.

Driving carries risk and at scale that risk will 100% every time manifest as real harm. It’s not about whether the risk is there but whether the gain is worth it. A less politically charged example, ordering your steak rare. There is real risk, and people get sick, a smaller subset get really sick. And yet we do it constantly.




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