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Safe driving distance! Yeah, that's huge. I am strict about keeping a 2.5-3 second distance. On the other hand, my cousin is a slave to the speed limit--- but

Safe driving distance! Yeah, that's huge. I am strict about keeping a 2.5-3 second distance. On the other hand, my cousin is a slave to the speed limit--- but that means when we carpooled to Portland during friday rush hour, he set it to cruise control and had a 0.5 or 1 second gap behind him and the next driver. I'm 29, above average intelligence, strong visual-spatial, never been in an accident. The rules don't apply to me. ;) This country doesn't have "discussions" anymore, there's no incentive for a politician to increase the speed limit or get rid of mandatory minimums. So fuck it. Let me know if you ever visit Seattle, it'd be cool to run into you!

TeMPOraL 11y ago
> I'm 29, above average intelligence, strong visual-spatial, never been in an accident. The rules don't apply to me. ;) Haha :). Well, glad to hear that, and I hope you won't have to be in (or witness) an accident ever. > This country doesn't have "discussions" anymore, there's no incentive for a politician to increase the speed limit or get rid of mandatory minimums. Yeah, mine neither. I think it's a global phenomenon in the West now. > So fuck it. I still want to believe there's a better way... > Let me know if you ever visit Seattle, it'd be cool to run into you! Why thank you :). The same if you happen to visit Poland (especially the southern areas)!
- civilian 11y ago
  So, here's a path to safer driving. I think that the electronic devices you can add to cars to track acceleration & movement will be really helpful. http://blog.esurance.com/drivesense-discount/ http://blog.esurance.com/drivesense-discount/ With big data, and knowing when they were in an accident, we'll be able to identify more signs of bad driving. But just having an accelerometer/GPS on the car isn't quite enough... I think there's a lot of potential in self-driving cars to identify bad drivers. When you have thousands of cars using LiDAR to accurately track the movements (and crashes) of human-driven cars, we'll gain a better understanding of what makes an unsafe driver, and we'll be able to identify incidents that were _almost_ a crash. With more LiDAR-recording cars on the road, insurance companies could ask Google to send them examples of bad driving for all their insurees. So, one day, I might get a higher bill from State Farm because hey, they have evidence of me being an unsafe driver. If it's backed by data, then I'm in favor of it. Haha! I'll absolutely reach out if I visit southern Poland. But I was making a pun--- "run into" is also used in american english to describe a car crashing into something. i.e. "I ran into a stop sign."
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Yeah, sensors and tracking technology will be helpful. Self-driving cars even more, but before that I agree tracking seems like a reasonable way to go (despite the privacy issues), and there's even a way to reliably feed the results back to the drivers - insurance companies have a strong incentive to use this data, and the drivers I know are surprisingly responsive to the potential of getting their insurance rates raised ;). > Haha! I'll absolutely reach out if I visit southern Poland. But I was making a pun--- "run into" is also used in american english to describe a car crashing into something. i.e. "I ran into a stop sign." I suspected you might have been doing it, but decided to assume the non-pun interpretation was also true :).

TeMPOraL 11y ago

> I'm 29, above average intelligence, strong visual-spatial, never been in an accident. The rules don't apply to me. ;) Haha :). Well, glad to hear that, and I hope you won't have to be in (or witness) an accident ever. > This country doesn't have "discussions" anymore, there's no incentive for a politician to increase the speed limit or get rid of mandatory minimums. Yeah, mine neither. I think it's a global phenomenon in the West now. > So fuck it. I still want to believe there's a better way... > Let me know if you ever visit Seattle, it'd be cool to run into you! Why thank you :). The same if you happen to visit Poland (especially the southern areas)!

civilian 11y ago
So, here's a path to safer driving. I think that the electronic devices you can add to cars to track acceleration & movement will be really helpful. http://blog.esurance.com/drivesense-discount/ http://blog.esurance.com/drivesense-discount/ With big data, and knowing when they were in an accident, we'll be able to identify more signs of bad driving. But just having an accelerometer/GPS on the car isn't quite enough... I think there's a lot of potential in self-driving cars to identify bad drivers. When you have thousands of cars using LiDAR to accurately track the movements (and crashes) of human-driven cars, we'll gain a better understanding of what makes an unsafe driver, and we'll be able to identify incidents that were _almost_ a crash. With more LiDAR-recording cars on the road, insurance companies could ask Google to send them examples of bad driving for all their insurees. So, one day, I might get a higher bill from State Farm because hey, they have evidence of me being an unsafe driver. If it's backed by data, then I'm in favor of it. Haha! I'll absolutely reach out if I visit southern Poland. But I was making a pun--- "run into" is also used in american english to describe a car crashing into something. i.e. "I ran into a stop sign."
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Yeah, sensors and tracking technology will be helpful. Self-driving cars even more, but before that I agree tracking seems like a reasonable way to go (despite the privacy issues), and there's even a way to reliably feed the results back to the drivers - insurance companies have a strong incentive to use this data, and the drivers I know are surprisingly responsive to the potential of getting their insurance rates raised ;). > Haha! I'll absolutely reach out if I visit southern Poland. But I was making a pun--- "run into" is also used in american english to describe a car crashing into something. i.e. "I ran into a stop sign." I suspected you might have been doing it, but decided to assume the non-pun interpretation was also true :).