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Gods, please don't do this. This a great way to have your dog run away or get blasted by a car.
I always see comments like these online, but they seem kind of absurd to me, coming from a country where it's not only totally common to walk dogs off-leash, but completely legal. There's really very few incidents of dogs darting into the streets here, and actually half the ones I've ever seen have been dogs on a lead anyway. A well trained dog doesn't do that.
I know too many people whose dogs and cats died from getting run over.
Also, I was bit in the face by an off leash dog as a child, went to the hospital, they had to stitch my lips back together.
A "well trained dog" is very subjective and requires a well disciplined person, and a "well trained dog" can still get confused, scared, or angry.
It's like saying seatbelts are absurd because a good driver doesn't crash.