"Wouldn't it be much better to deploy a helicopter, drone or other means of tracking the car from a distance, and not risk killing several bystanders in a crash?"

*other guy responds, more or less stating non-death penalty crimes should be death-penalty crimes because people like their cars, despite the risk of innocent bystanders being killed which that was the initial and main point of Koyaanisqatsi's post, and the first thing he talked about*

Are you up to speed yet? I can't help it if there are multiple people in the thread whose heads the point whooshed over. I've always reviled my fellow americans for being so incredibly over-punitive as to actually blind themseles to the unintended consequences; and it's been a problem in American history, especially the last 2 generations. But I didn't know that it worked online, too. So blinded by the punitive aspect as to miss Koyaanisqatsi's central point.

It's now 1D

The conversation was a conversation specifically about the risk to bystanders. Go read the fucking thread and pull your head out of all of OUR asses.

He changed what we were talking about in mid-stream, and you apparently were unable to go up to the beginning of the discussion and determine this for yourself as well. I'm glad some random anonymous person already mentinoed this...

Did anyone ever prove that there were Communists in the State Department in the large and ever-changing numbers Tailgunner Joe claimed?

I could claim that everyone working in the Swiss patent office in the first decade of the 20th Century was a genius, and Jewish, but it wouldn't automatically be true just because Einstein worked there.

of my semen!

it's already on Uranus

but we don't want to start an interplanetary war

because iMaps had citizens crashing into military buildings.

Let's send up chimps like we used to.

Tsk tsk, Hipsters ;-)

The results, surprisingly, are mixed

Why is that surprising?

I was unaware only criminals died during high speed car chases. I can't believe there's not a single shred of evidence on the entire internet ever showing that an innocent person died in a car crash during a police pursuit! Thank you for correcting my stupid beliefs!

Uh, I don't see a lot of halfies in your link. A front engine block may be preventing an outright split, while in a Tesla the "engines" are more distributed. Whether this means gas cars are "safer" or not in practice is another matter.

Maybe the distributed nature of Tesla's engines means that side impacts are safer at the expense of front impacts.

Two half-people dying equals one whole person dying.

except on Tuesday during Fizbin games.

Elon Musk can no longer say that no one's ever died in a Tesla automobile crash [because a thief died stealing one].

Don't underestimate the adaptability of a good marketer:

"No owner has ever died in a Tesla crash"