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Self Driving in Final Leg.
georgiapeach:
I would love a final leg where all teams had to use local public transportation.
Katarzyna:
I prefer taxis or public tranpos. It adds more excitement & unpredictability to the finale. Self driving is too straight forward for me.
Dom:
Imagine trying to keep teams under the speed limit in the final leg!
starrynight:
No way is self driving straightforward, teams have easily got lost in the past as has been shown many times in seasons where they drove more. There should be more self driving in the race in general. They have a cameraman with them, if they go over the speed limit or go through red lights they can get an on the spot time penalty. And certainly no excuse not to use public transport more.
And the idea that taxis are always safe isn't that true anyway. There have been some daredevil taxi drivers in the past.
DrRox:
What most fail to realize, The Amazing Race is first of all, a business/commerical venture to produce entertainment for television. As such, it must carry liability insurance for the people involved. The cost to provide insurance if teams were driving cars in the finale for a million dollars would be prohibitive to production. It is not about just running red lights and speeding....it about what it would cost if some brain dead racers actually killed an innocent bystander on the way to the one million............it aint never gonna happen........unless the finale is in the middle of the Sahara or some place similiar......
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