• EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          People are always going to adjust their risk upwards as technology gets safer. Even if all cars were self-driving and perfect, some pedestrian will push the bounds of physics, stepping out with no time to stop.

          These drivers aren’t going to sleep or Tiktoking in the first 30 minutes. They are being lulled into complacency by a tech that generally does a good job, and they have been told by marketing that we are so close to FSD.

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Isn’t every technology a convenience technology?

          We weren’t making fires or using levers to inconvenience ourselves.

    • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Your statement only works if you’re also accounting for accidents prevented by lane assist technology. It’s also worth factoring in cases where these technologies were able to make an accident less severe.

    • nutsack@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      you have to compare it with human shampoo drivers to have this number mean anything