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I've had a wheel come off, and go rolling down the road. (Come to think of it, I've had it happen twice, once way back when I was in high school.) Again, no one was hurt, but that's just pure luck: it easily could have been otherwise. Then there's my ex's pickup, which caught fire as she was warming it up one winter morning.
The point is, there are all these real things that can and do go wrong with current automotive technology, but people seem to have become so familiar with them that they're accepted as just natural, and so discounted. Get some new technology, though, and they start imagining all the things that conceivably could go wrong, wildly exaggerate the risks, and so wind up making unreasonable decisions.
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