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Waymo should provide a loaded shotgun in every car. It’s America, after all.

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Make it AI controlled for good measure

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Russian roulette cab ride

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Maybe that could spark a nice tradition of the one sitting besides the drivers seat calling ‘shotgun’.

… O wait

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SAAB tried to corner the US market in the '80s and '90s by giving away a shoulder mounted anti tank rocket with each purchase of a car, but their legal team said “that’s not an appropriate way to deal with road rage.”

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Huh, sounds like their legal department was from Europe?

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They should have little nozzles to disperse a cloud of pepper spray around the vehicle in emergencies.

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I had this thought too. Probably unrealistic because of all the ways that can go horribly wrong, but somehow that solution seems easier than convincing a certain subset of men to behave themselves.

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