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[–] 4 points 6 months ago

Really interesting but extremely long story. Need more!

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    [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Large trucks account for five per cent of the vehicles in the United States but play a role in ten per cent of fatal accidents.

    How many accidents happen with parked cars? Yet they’re the majority of vehicles. Not to defend the American trucking industry; it’s a disaster and there’s no way that heavy trucks would be allowed on roads if they were suddenly invented today.

    ETA: finished the article. The above quote really is tangential to the point of the article. It’s a great read. The lengths people go to for money is astounding.

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    there’s no way that heavy trucks would be allowed on roads if they were suddenly invented today.

    There’d be some big tech corpo that would build a billion of them at once, connect them to the internet and pretend they’re just extra large electric scooters until they were so ubiquitous that the public couldn’t imagine banning them.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    That was a great read! Nice to see such high quality journalism!

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