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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from coast to coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Jay that is going too slow on the freeway is dangerous.

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Speaker 2: What about going way too fast?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know our freeways, the controlled access highways. The

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Speaker 3: US interstate highway system is actually built on the same

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Speaker 3: model as the German autobonds. So if you're a fairly

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Speaker 3: competent driver and you're not weaving in and out of traffic,

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Speaker 3: you can go reasonable speed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at.

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Speaker 3: The speed limits around the country. In Utah, the same

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Speaker 3: highway is eighty miles an hour as a speed limit,

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Speaker 3: and in other parts of the country the exact same

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Speaker 3: design of a highway is sometimes fifty five miles an

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Speaker 3: hour or fifty or sixty miles an hour. So the

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Speaker 3: speed limits on our highways are pretty arbitrary with regards

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Speaker 3: to the jurisdiction that you're driving through. And so what

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Speaker 3: we recommend in terms of how we set speed limits

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Speaker 3: is something called the eighty fifth percentile speed. That's the

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Speaker 3: speed that eighty five percent of the people don't exceed.

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Speaker 3: It's the natural speed that everybody sort of congregates on

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Speaker 3: the roadway. So the most dangerous thing actually is speed

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Speaker 3: variation that is, some people going much faster, some people

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Speaker 3: going much slower. But if everybody's going about the same speed,

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Speaker 3: that's been proven to be the most safe thing, even

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Speaker 3: if that's a little faster than say what somebody arbitrarily

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Speaker 2: For There's nothing worse though than a driver doing forty

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Speaker 2: on the freeway right exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's even worse if they're stuck in the

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Speaker 3: left lane and refuse to move over. The National Motors

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Speaker 3: Association one of the things we do in most years

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Speaker 3: is we have what we call Lane Courtesy Month, and

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Speaker 3: we try to encourage people, you know, stay to the right,

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Speaker 3: pass left, and leave that left lane open for the

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Speaker 3: people that want to drive a reasonable speed on the roadway.

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Speaker 2: Now, some states have a high speed lane, but you

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Speaker 2: have to have more than one person in the car.

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Speaker 2: Is that happening throughout the country.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, what they're doing is they have they have

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Speaker 3: carpool lanes that has been proven not to be very successful.

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Speaker 3: But what they're starting to do now is they're starting

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Speaker 3: to have these lanes in which you have to pay

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Speaker 3: to be in those lanes. There's nothing wrong with building

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Speaker 3: a lane in which you have to pay for. If

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Speaker 3: that's an extra lane. The problem would be is if

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Speaker 3: they took away a lane that we've already paid for

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Speaker 3: with our tax dollars and then made that uh and

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Speaker 3: a lane in which you had to pay for. So

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Speaker 3: so it depends on whether or not you know how

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Speaker 3: how you built the lane, and how you how you've

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Speaker 3: used that money, and whether you've used new money for

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Speaker 3: that and added to capacity. But what we're seeing around

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Speaker 3: the country is what they really want to do is

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Speaker 3: they want to reduce capacity to have this thing called

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Speaker 3: road diets. And I don't if anybody's heard that before,

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Speaker 3: but what that basically means is they want to take

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Speaker 3: away car lanes because there's too much car lane you're going,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's too easy for you to get around,

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Speaker 3: So they want to take away car lanes. And this

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Speaker 3: is happening in a lot of cities. Los Angeles and

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Speaker 3: New York City has done this, you know, a lot

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Speaker 3: of major cities and sometimes in smaller places around the country,

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Speaker 3: and it can lead to some very very dangerous things

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Speaker 3: that have happened. You probably have covered on your show

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Speaker 3: the fire up in Paradise, California, when that happened. And

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Speaker 3: one of the things that happened there A lot of

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Speaker 3: people don't know this is that they did a road

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Speaker 3: diet in the middle of town on that roadway, after

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Speaker 3: they were told that the route out of town was

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Speaker 3: already not safe. What they did was they took away

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Speaker 3: a car lane and a number of people I think

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Speaker 3: it was eighty somewhi people lost their lives in that,

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Speaker 3: and part of that was because people couldn't get out

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Speaker 3: a car lane. And unfortunately, that's what some of this

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Speaker 3: ideology leads to, leads to things that are much less safe,

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Speaker 2: Jade, does your organization ever look at road rage?

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Speaker 3: You know, it is something that we don't spend a

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Speaker 3: A lot of what's happening with road rage nowadays, I

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Speaker 3: think is people are very frustrated by the policies that

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Speaker 3: They're frustrated by that. But of course we certainly can't

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Speaker 3: condone anybody doing anything dangerous on the roadway or being

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Speaker 3: unsafe to other people on the roadway. We think people

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Speaker 3: need to be courteous. That's why we promote the lane

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Speaker 3: courtesy and you know, people need to get along and

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Speaker 3: you know, but people also need to be courteous. So

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Speaker 3: you know, if somebody wants to go a little faster,

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Speaker 3: then you get out of their way, don't don't try

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Speaker 3: to block them in intentionally.

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Speaker 2: And I'm convinced road rage occurs when a bad driver

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Speaker 2: or in consider a driver does something to a person

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Speaker 2: who's having a bad day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely, that's definitely what leads to this kind

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Speaker 3: the boiling point. So we really knew need to kind

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Speaker 3: of take a step back just overall. But we tend to,

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Speaker 3: and this is more of a psychological thing, that we

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Speaker 3: tend to ascribe bad motives to people when that may

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Speaker 3: not be their intention. You know that guy cut me off, Well,

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Speaker 3: maybe he just didn't see you, or he wasn't paying attention,

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Speaker 3: or he's having a bad day.

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Speaker 2: Or he made a mistake.

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Speaker 3: A little bit of grace. Yeah, maybe just made a mistake,

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Speaker 3: you know, I you know, I accidentally, you know, a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, I actually made a mistake and

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Speaker 3: and you know, unfortunately I didn't quite cut somebody off,

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Speaker 3: but somebody got mad at something that I did on

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Speaker 3: the roadway and they, you know, they came after me

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Speaker 3: and driving like a maniac. That's not going to get

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Speaker 3: you anywhere. That's not going to help you. You're going

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Speaker 3: to hurt somebody. Don't do that, you know, just just

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Speaker 3: let it go and and and don't be you know,

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Speaker 3: don't don't don't put more people in danger because you know,

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Speaker 3: you you you know, you can't just sort of say, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe that person's having a bad day, or

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Speaker 3: maybe that person just made a mistake. They weren't intending

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Speaker 3: it towards me. Everybody takes things a little too personally

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Speaker 3: these days, and we need to we need to have

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Speaker 3: a little bit more grace to people.

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Speaker 2: I think I tried to go out of my way

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Speaker 2: to help people. Somebody's trying to cut into traffic and

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Speaker 2: they're stuck on the side, I'll slow down, let them

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Speaker 2: turn signal on to change lanes. Nobody lets them in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do the same thing because you know what,

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Speaker 3: here's the thing. I want to treat people the way

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Speaker 3: one of the things that we promote in our organization

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Speaker 3: is this sort of the golden rule, and you know,

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Speaker 3: them merge. It's only one car in front of you,

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Speaker 3: don't you know, don't be a jerk about it, you know,

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Speaker 3: and just you know, just just be nice to people

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Speaker 3: will all get along. We'll all get there much more

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Speaker 3: of time. It's the things that we fight about are

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Speaker 3: the are the unfair policies that the government is imposing

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Speaker 3: is creating traffic congestion unfortunately, and that's going to make

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Speaker 3: some government official decided it was better for you to

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Speaker 2: Jay, My mother is ninety five, lives in Detroit and

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Speaker 2: still drives, and she was bragging today about how she drives.

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Speaker 2: And I said, Mom, if I'm ever in Detroit and

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Speaker 3: But you know, my mom is ninety one and she

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Speaker 2: Does she do freeways. I don't think mine does freeways.

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Speaker 3: She tries to stay away from some of the higher

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Speaker 3: doesn't drive as far as she used to, but she

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Speaker 3: you know, she still goes to the grocery store. She

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Speaker 3: but certainly doesn't take those long trips that we used

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Speaker 2: What's going on with these bike lanes or these bikes,

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Speaker 2: you pedal bikes that are in the middle of the road.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, this is an interesting phenomenon. There is

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Speaker 3: there is unfortunately a very militant, small, small, small part

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Speaker 3: they'll say, oh, we just want to share the roadway,

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Speaker 3: but what they want is at least half of the roadway.

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Speaker 3: And if you look at the amount of people that

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Speaker 3: and it's actually down from twenty fourteen. But what they're

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Speaker 3: I have this joke whenever we do see the rare

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Speaker 3: will say, oh, they're just a unicorns. They're so rare

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: They say, well, if you build it, they will come. Well, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: they have spent billions of dollars around the country building

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Speaker 3: out bike lanes, and the amount of bicycling has barely moved.

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Speaker 3: It's barely moved, and it will never reach the amount

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Speaker 3: And what's actually increasing, not just because of the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: working from home is way way before the pandemic, way

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Speaker 3: out numbered the people that were traveling around by bicycles.

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Speaker 3: And so we're never going to get people to switch

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Speaker 3: to bicycles as a major form of transportation in this country.

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Speaker 3: And it's a fool's errand and we're making a lot

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Speaker 3: And that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be bike lanes

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Speaker 3: here and there, or there are, there shouldn't be places

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Speaker 3: for people to bike if they need to, but the

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Speaker 3: in taking away car lanes as a result, is a

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Speaker 2: And some of these bikers don't have reflectors or lights

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Speaker 3: Yes. In fact, the satistics, the statistics show that the

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Speaker 2: No, you're right, you can't see them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And unfortunately there are you know, a set

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Speaker 3: So the rules don't apply to them, but you know,

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Speaker 3: Everybody else is at your but you're perfect. That seems

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Speaker 2: Tell me you hate self driving cars and trucks because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there there are could be some benefits

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe you know, maybe a self driving car

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Speaker 3: is appropriate for them to get around. But the thing

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Speaker 3: we're concerned about self driving cars is the amount of

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Speaker 3: control that the government potentially could have over our lives if,

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Speaker 3: this is that the that no manufacturer will will build

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Speaker 3: a self driving car that breaks the law. They can't.

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Speaker 3: It's it's by its very nature, so it's much easier

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Speaker 3: some ridiculous law and then everybody, you know, that car

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Speaker 3: has to follow it. The human being inside that car

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Speaker 3: will have no control over it, and I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Let's say, I know, some crazy thing happens, like a pandemic,

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Speaker 2: To us, they never happen.

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Speaker 3: I know they would never happen. But in the case

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Speaker 3: that law or pass that rule. Not even a law,

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Speaker 3: They probably just have to pass the rule and the

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Speaker 3: that car that makes the software for that, they will

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Speaker 3: that's the concern we have is is you know how

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Speaker 3: much freedom will you have left when that car is

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Speaker 3: going and decides, you know what, we're not going to

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Speaker 3: take you there in our in our self driving car

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Speaker 3: because we don't agree with your life choices.

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Speaker 2: Or we're going to just simply shut the car down

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Speaker 3: And that's another thing that they want to do. They

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Speaker 3: and we're very concerned about the fact that they're mandating

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Speaker 3: been talking to Congress. Is one of the things that

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