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European Parliament Planning Motor Law

The safety crusade had been well done at first. The few harebrained schemes were quickly ruled out and a sense of rationality developed. But [···] The regulations concerning safety became tougher. 

The Motor Law mentioned in that Rush song --ie outlawing personal internal combustion engines-- may no longer be the stuff of science fiction. Scandinavian MEPs concerned about global warming and climate change are thinking of making it a reality before 2021, "if everything goes down smoothly."
"The damages and injuries will actually decrease; the new school of personal vehicles will save your life (usually) in a 50-mph crash. They will give even less thought than before to the possibility of being injured in a crash. As a result, the damages and injuries will actually decrease a steady six percent every year, so the governments will be happy, the insurance industry will be happy and most of the owners will also be happy -- not to mention the Earth or, for instance, the polar bears," has said Kustaa Huhtikuu of the Finnish Green Party to a happy few leak channels on the Net, including our source for this article.