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Re:7.1M miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo's safety data looks good by zehaeva on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:33PM (#38726496)
To add onto the sibling's point, the "safe following distance" has a rule of thumb of "3 seconds behind". At 65MPH, I'm assuming you're in the US, is approximately 300 feet.

I'm willing to bet that's around 10 times what you were considering as a safe following distance in your head, and probably still 5 times more than what you were picturing for the safe distance behind a brake checking AV.

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Re:7.1M miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo's safety data looks good by bombcar on Friday December 22, 2023 @07:52AM (#38733636)
The problem with the “safe distance” (my new car has it built into the cruise control) is that it’s more than large enough for a vehicle to merge into, which repeatedly happens.

As more and more cars default to this safely, however, it’ll start to equal out.

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