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Moral crumple zones

Moral crumple zones

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Moral crumple zones

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- Moral crumple zones are not my branding or idea at all. They are an idea and a paper that I will commend to all of you by a wonderful woman who, by the time we air this, will have her doctorate in hand, Doctor Madeleine Elish. And what Dr. Elish was working on just really rang true with me and we had a long conversation about it. When cars were first invented and for a very long period of time, safety meant making them harder, making them stronger, making them one, solid unit. Unfortunately, what happened is, the vehicle, as the horsepower got even stronger, the occupant was still governed by the laws of entropy. And so if you ran into something or the car just stopped too soon or, you know, collided with a tree, the occupants would fly forward and then smash, bam off you go. Not a good thing. So instead, the designers of vehicles have these empty pockets where physics and geometry is used to direct all the energy for…

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