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Comment by JoshTriplett

10 hours ago

With how much modern cars rely on electronics, I would not try to drive during such an event.

That's a safety feature. It prevents you from drinking and driving if you go to a pub during a solar flare. :)

No one would drive to the pub anyway. Better walking back home…

  • Valid. I think I have such an ingrained different set of assumptions (a pub being just another kind of place for food, and "going to" anything involving a form of transportation) that that didn't even occur to me.