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Most of what a car costs is the weight and structure needed to survive human driving error, not the transport it delivers.

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infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

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  1. Austin Vernon by Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts…
    Humans being awful drivers leads to a massive increase in vehicle costs and weight, makes cars more dangerous to people outside of them, and imposes significant costs on infrastructure like roads.

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