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_dp9d on July 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They O...

> Having seen the possible consequences of a bad decision first-hand does not, in fact, stop people from making bad decisions.

For certain personality types.

Are you saying if 16 year olds were forced to work with rehab patients, a good percentage of them would not be scared away from driving?

Cass on July 14, 2012 [–]

I'm not talking in hypotheticals here. I'm saying that of the many, many people I know who do in fact work closely with the badly injured victims of traffic accidents every day, not a single one has been scared away from driving.

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