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They increase safety in the short-term. As the number of automobiles goes up, they become more dangerous. Essentially,

safety = mass of your car / average mass of collisionable vehicles + C, where C is a constant that describes how safe the car would be driving the road alone

The safest world is one where you have a tank and everybody else walks.




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