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Re:Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Fran... by Gigachad on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:35PM (#31942030)
The problem is much more widespread than just self driving cars. The US follows the model of making driving as predictable and event free as possible. Which results in people driving as fast as possible while paying the least attention. When someone does something unpredictable in the usually predicable environment, it results in death.

While its quite proven that slow, chaotic, and unpredictable environments are so much safer. Notice how walking through an all directions intersection crossing is incredibly chaotic, and yet no one collides with anyone else, or even when they do, it results in basically no harm.

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Re:Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Fran... by koreth1 on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:22AM (#31942333)
> While its quite proven that slow, chaotic, and unpredictable environments are so much safer.

The "slow" part, for sure. Harm in a collision is largely a matter of kinetic energy.

The "chaotic and unpredictable" part, maybe not. From the statistics I've seen over the years, traffic-related death rates seem to be much higher in places with highly chaotic driving environments. For example, 140 annual traffic deaths per 100,000 vehicles in India vs. 14 in the USA.

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