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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)
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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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