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...don't want to be a car operator, don't own a car, have no real interest in owning a car. Do I still need to know what a spark plug is and what it does (I vaguely sort of know this, although one car I did drive for a while years ago didn't have them), or how to change oil (not a damn clue)? That shouldn't mean that if you tell me something about cars is intrinsically unsafe (narrow wheel base to height ratio on SUVs for instance) that I shouldn't be able to grasp it. In fact, there are a lot of people out there who don't know anything about cars; you can generally find them in relatively densely-populated urban areas with decent public transit. :)

I'm not sure which is the greater hazard, though. Voting machine failures can do a lot of damage to society, but a lot more people die from automotive incidents than from failures of American democracy, inasmuch as such a thing exists, generally speaking...

Glenn, that was a bad metaphor to use. :)