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I'm genuinely in favor of making all cars throttle limited to 65 mph and as light as possible. Fuel savings, less dangerous in a crash both thanks to speed and mass reduction, and maybe people won't drive around like complete assholes disregarding the life of everyone around them if they can't feel an inhumane power of speed and heft.
But until then, riding on a motorcycle in this society is basically Russian roulette.
Cars are so closely related to the idea of freedom in Amerikkka that doing this would trigger some sort of revolution.
California drivers were already whipped into a frothing rage when their freedom to endanger the lives of everyone around them was threatened, so they watered it down to having the speedometer beep at them