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Because wasting time on transpiration also kills, small slices of lost life in parallel. Traffic had long hanging fruit for saving lives for sure -- mandatory

by jwatte 9y ago

Because wasting time on transpiration also kills, small slices of lost life in parallel. Traffic had long hanging fruit for saving lives for sure -- mandatory daytime running lights come to mind as a zero cost improvement -- but the speed equation is not generally simple.

lloeki 9y ago
> small slices of lost life "A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death."
- reificator 9y ago
  I think they were talking about time, not risk.
trothamel 9y ago
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
- gowld 9y ago
  That's funny because the Mac had a famously slow OS+chip combination for many years. Steve Jobs had an excuse for everything he wanted to do.
kgwgk 9y ago
Not really zero cost (probably cost-effective though). https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/drl-gas-consumption1.htm https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/...
KozmoNau7 9y ago
>Because wasting time on transpiration also kills, small slices of lost life in parallel. So you're willing to put other people at risk, for an immeasurable gain to yourself? Maybe you should take public transport more, where you can actually do something else while being transported?
- dang 9y ago
  > So you're Comments here need to follow the HN guideline which asks: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - KozmoNau7 9y ago
    Based on my experience with other people, both in and out of traffic, that is the most plausible interpretation.
    - dang 9y ago
      That's not what the guideline is asking for. If it were, it would be a no-op, since that would be asking for one's first interpretation, and we get that anyway.
      - KozmoNau7 9y ago
        "Assume good faith" is a tall order, when you have to deal with people everyday.
- closeparen 9y ago
  Yes. Air travel is quite safe, for example, but not danger-free. We as a society are willing to accept some death here and there so that the rest of us can go on interesting vacations.
Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
> mandatory daytime running lights come to mind as a zero cost improvement Jury's out on that one. If you're always looking for vehicles with lights on, you're less likely to notice pedestrians or cyclists in the road.

by jwatte 9y ago

lloeki 9y ago

> small slices of lost life "A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death."

reificator 9y ago
I think they were talking about time, not risk.

trothamel 9y ago

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt

gowld 9y ago
That's funny because the Mac had a famously slow OS+chip combination for many years. Steve Jobs had an excuse for everything he wanted to do.

kgwgk 9y ago

Not really zero cost (probably cost-effective though). https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/drl-gas-consumption1.htm https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/...

KozmoNau7 9y ago

>Because wasting time on transpiration also kills, small slices of lost life in parallel. So you're willing to put other people at risk, for an immeasurable gain to yourself? Maybe you should take public transport more, where you can actually do something else while being transported?

dang 9y ago
> So you're Comments here need to follow the HN guideline which asks: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- KozmoNau7 9y ago
  Based on my experience with other people, both in and out of traffic, that is the most plausible interpretation.
  - dang 9y ago
    That's not what the guideline is asking for. If it were, it would be a no-op, since that would be asking for one's first interpretation, and we get that anyway.
    - KozmoNau7 9y ago
      "Assume good faith" is a tall order, when you have to deal with people everyday.
closeparen 9y ago
Yes. Air travel is quite safe, for example, but not danger-free. We as a society are willing to accept some death here and there so that the rest of us can go on interesting vacations.

Doctor_Fegg 9y ago

> mandatory daytime running lights come to mind as a zero cost improvement Jury's out on that one. If you're always looking for vehicles with lights on, you're less likely to notice pedestrians or cyclists in the road.