Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope this is a copy pasta lmao, if you actually go to a training course where you learn to handle oversteer, understeer and spin you out, they tell you that you have about a fuck all chance of recovering, even when there when you have warning and you know it’s coming and you have a fairly low speed you have very little chance of counter steering correctly.

  Here is what you actually have to do to drive safely:

  1, dont be a dumbass that thinks you need to go through 12 years of Formula 1 training to drive on the road

  2, dont be a dumbass and adjust your speed to driving conditions

  3 dont be a dumbass and don’t push the limits of your car on public roads

  4, defensive driving, assume people on the road are idiots and will fuck up and drive accordingly.

  5, learn how your car works, eg. just because you have an e-Handbrake you can still pull on it and it will stop the car

  6, and most important, because people don’t know how to do it, learn to emergency break, meaning your hazard lights come on.

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  • Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I completely disagree.

    For example, you are using the hand brake as an example. 95 percent of people (including you, evidently) don’t even understand that the handbrake is not an emergency brake, they don’t get how the behavior works, or the fact that it’s meant to be used as a parking breaks, I consistently see people slam their parking pawls verytime they get out of their car. (Not to mention that it doesn’t even work while you are driving on most modern cars and has no modulation, as it’s just a button)

    If not being an idiot was good enough to drive a car, then it wouldn’t be so deadly. It’s also possible to fly a plane with common sense, but you wouldn’t be happy if your pilot told you they don’t have training.

    Driving isn’t easy, it’s just that we accept an absolutely catastrophic amount of accidents as a cost of doing business.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is an emergency brake when your brake fails, you donut

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