Re:Tesla received a cease-and-desist letter from NHTSA over ...
by dragontamer on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:23PM
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> Except that all side collisions and rear ends could be avoided by the stiking vehicle stopping faster
Or you know, not being on distracted autopilot: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...
People get distracted, and when they're distracted they'll crash into things.
Re:Tesla received a cease-and-desist letter from NHTSA over ...
by windexh8er on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:52PM
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Are you implying distracted driving is unique to only Tesla vehicles? The link you posted implies that, and then you immediately generalize your argument.
Re:Tesla received a cease-and-desist letter from NHTSA over ...
by dragontamer on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:57PM
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I intend to argue in the general sense. People will, in general, be distracted while driving. One protection is to simply be in a heavier vehicle so that you can survive more collisions when you're in a distracted state.
An alternative solution is "don't be distracted", but that doesn't seem to work in practice.
Again, with the biker statement, since you'll never find a data set that would show accidents avoided on the particular vehicle there's a huge swath of underrepresentation of the reality. And one can argue proportionally bikers are in more crashes because there are less of them overall on top of the fact that most drivers of cars and trucks do not pay considerate attention to smaller vehicles.
And finally my comment about the "friends with fast cars" was a tongue in cheek response to the fact that the parent I was replying to made a large jump by saying SUVs are safer because of size and weight.