AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by ComputerGuru on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:16AM (#26271825)

I laughed at that statistic the first time I read it, but it isn’t ridiculous. 80% of drivers consider themselves better than what they think of as the average (mean) driver, not average (mode) driver. Same for most surveys. People see how bad the worst is, how good the best is, and then place themselves somewhere above the middle of that range.

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by changoplatanero on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:23AM (#26271863)

It could also mean that 80% of people are better than average according to their preferred metric of good driving but that everyone has a different metric.

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by tjoff on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:26AM (#26271878)

And that noone grades themselves on their absolute worst distracted behavior. Whereas what you see/notice in traffic are of other drivers experiencing just that.

The majority of drivers are good drivers - most of the time.

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by camjohnson26 on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:27AM (#26271881)

Ratings: 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Average Rating: 8.2

% Below Average: 10%

% Above Average: 90%

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by azinman2 on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:31AM (#26271905)

Driving skills are literally to be normally distributed, which this distribution is not.

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by camjohnson26 on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:01AM (#26272049)

Disagree, the first driver might get in 1 accident every million miles and the other drivers one every 9 million, objectively 9 times better.

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by diggernet on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:53AM (#26276817)

Also, there is a magnifying effect. Every one of those "9" drivers will notice the "1" driver. They'll talk amongst themselves about the terrible drivers they've seen, never knowing they are all talking about the same high-visibility driver. But if one of those "9" drivers is actually a "10", the others could drive alongside them all day long and never even notice, because the "10" driver never did anything to call attention to themselves.

Conclusion: "Most drivers [that I notice] suck."

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Re:AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automat... by azinman2 on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:03PM (#26276980)

s/literally/likely

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