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'taint speed that kills... it's the idiot behind the wheel!
If you design a car for safety you don't inform the person buying it how safe the car is. it a fact the safer the driver feels the dangerously they drive.
Here's a thought. As we are all aware speed and momentum are linked. At equal speed a heavier vehicle will do more damage than a light one to the same object. So given that hgv's are roughly 40 times heavier than cars lets have them travel at one fortieth of the speed. That would work for the environment too as goods would need to go by train to get anywhere on time and as we know one train 5 times a week is equivalent to 800 truck journeys. Alternativly cars could go forty times as fast, yay!
how to get products to consumers?easy. reinstate the missing rail links such that every population center has a connection and then use these as distribution nodes. seem to think that system worked very well for rather a long time as little as 50 years ago. would do wonders for congestion too as people could use it for traveling between places too. i know i would.