Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds...
by tqi on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:40PM
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> it's that those situations might be unevenly distributed among drivers.
I think that may be true in all cases - for example seat belts and airbags requirements may affect people differently depending on height and weight?
Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds...
by Dylan16807 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:57PM
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Well specifically the idea is that it's so uneven it might increase the danger for certain groups, and seatbelts are pretty good overall. But bringing up airbags is a great example. If you're short enough (or possibly if you're tall enough), a standard airbag is more dangerous than nothing at all.
Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds...
by CJefferson on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:36AM
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Your claim seems to be the group who are not helped are "good drivers"? ... except that doesn't feel like a well-defined group to me, and also is a group that almost everyone would say that they are in.
A seat belt is basically the same for everyone. It makes things safer when you look at all drivers, and it makes things safer for just about any subgroup of drivers.
But a buggy AEB might not fit that pattern. Imagine a system that reduces crashes by half, but then adds an extra X crashes per million miles. If someone's unassisted crash rate is 5X, then this system reduces it to 3.5X and is a great help. If someone's unassisted crash rate is .5X, then this system increases their crash rate to 1.25X and is a terrible trade.