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    "title": "Would Cars Be Government-Approved Today?",
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    "created": "2011-12-17 18:34:19 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>... have you considered how lucky we are that the government lets us drive cars at all?</p>\n<p>Imagine if cars hadn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t been around for a century, but instead were just invented today. Is there any way they\u00e2\u0080\u0099d be approved for individual use? ...</p>\n<p>Even aside from pollution, the government wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t allow the risks to safety.</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cSo you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re proposing that people speed around in tons of metal? You must mean only really smart, well-trained people?\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cNo. Everyone. Even stupid people.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cWon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t millions be killed?\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cOh, no. Not that many. Just a little more than 40,000 a year.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd injuries?\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cOh . . . millions.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u0080\u0099s no way that would get approved today.</p>\n<p>Driving is basically a grandfathered freedom from back when people cared less about pollution and danger and valued progress and liberty over safety. They had different equations related to human life then: We could lose 10,000 men in a single battle in a war and call it a victory.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/hey_they_still_let_us_drive_yj0UXYTPoMAOGyf4AuFRiI\">Driving: Will nanny state take it away?--Frank J. Fleming - NYPOST.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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