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> Where I live those vehicles are only allowed to drive in the right two lanes.

Motorcycles can't use the left lane?

> There's already a federal push to have speed limiters in vehicles like that and it is getting a lot of pushback

A 26,000lb vehicle, going down a 5% grade, with brake failure, goes whatever speed it pleases.

> discussion about the general public's tolerance for risk

The general public, famously, does not have the skill set needed to make correct measurements here. The discussion can only be on that is manipulated.



> Motorcycles can't use the left lane?

Trucks. It is very conspicuously posted 2-4 times a mile. See https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Ch... (I live in MA) and https://www.findlaw.com/injury/car-accidents/no-trucks-in-th... (To see how these laws change by state.)

> A 26,000lb vehicle, going down a 5% grade, with brake failure, goes whatever speed it pleases.

Don't get bogged down by corner cases. This is why there are runaway truck ramps when this is a risk.

> The general public, famously, does not have the skill set needed to make correct measurements here

That is how authoritarian leadership justifies itself. You clearly do not have the maturity to be part of this discussion if you have to resort to authoritarianism and "ends justify the means."




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