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The Costly Confusion

The highway can be built. The accidents require something else.

Nitzan Hermon
Mar 26, 2026
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There is a difference between designing a highway system and designing fewer accidents.

The highway system is designable. You can specify it, model it, hand it to engineers, and what emerges will closely resemble what you drew. You can point to the blueprint and say: that is what we are building. The materials are known, the steps are known, the o…

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